Grisaille painting 'The Decapitation of the Sons of Brutus' by an unknown artist from circa 1800 on display in the Museum der bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts) in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Titus Junius Brutus and his younger brother Tiberius Junius Brutus, two sons of Lucius Junius Brutus, the founder of the Roman Republic and one of the first consuls, were executed after the Tarquinian conspiracy was discovered in 509 BC.

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