Abstract
The article concerns with the analysis of the representation in the 16th century French engraving of the murder of Henry of Guise and Louis of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise in the Royal Château de Blois in december, 1588. The murder of the leaders of the Catholic party by order of the French king provoked an increase in the number of the tyranny-fighting pamphlets and related leaflets. As in the case of textual sources, the leaguers engraving is characterized by flattering images of Guise brothers to the religious one: they are represented as “martyrs for belief” by means of a number of biblical allusions the top of which it becomes imitatio Christi.
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