See also Let There Be Light and these links on medieval lighting. (I’m avoiding including allegorical torch depictions on this collection of links, as well as depictions where the illustrator doesn’t seem to be basing the torch on a contemporary example.)

• Men with torches, a book of hours (PML M.92, fol. 101r), c. 1230-1239
• The Arrest of Christ by Giotto di Bondone, c. 1304-1306
• Christ Taken Prisoner by Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-1311
• Venus interceding for Lover to Welcome, Roman de la Rose (PML M.324, fol. 24v), c. 1350
• The arrival of Publius Sulpicius Galba at Macedonia, Histoire romaine (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 777, fol. 316), c. 1370
• The death of Abimelech, Speculum Humanae Salvationis (BNE B. 19 (Vit 25-7), fol. 35r), c. 1420-1440
• The Bal des Ardents, Froissart’s Chronicles (BNF Fr. 2648, fol. 308), mid-15th century (contrary to the usual narrative, all of the dancers carry torches)
• The Bal des Ardents, Froissart’s Chronicles (British Library Harley 4380, fol. 1r), c. 1450-1480. (Note that the torches appear in the left background and right foreground; the wooden sticks on the ground were the performers’ prop clubs.)
• Olivier de Clisson is attacked (fol. 146v) The Bal des Ardents (fol. 176), funeral of Richard II of England (fol. 339), Froissart’s Chronicles (BNF Fr. 2646), second half of the 15th century (torch appears in the left background)
• Servants holding torches during a banquet at the house of Bessus, Historiae Alexandri Magni (BNF Fr. 49, fol. 9), second half of the 15th century
• Assassination of Humphrey the Good, Chronicles of England (BNF Fr. 84, fol. 1), second half of the 15th century
• Awarding the prize to the winner of the tournament in The Book of the Tournament of René d'Anjou: BNF Fr. 2692, fol. 70v (c. 1488-1489); BNF Fr. 2693, fol. 64v (c. 1488-1489); BNF Fr. 2695, fol. 103v (c. 1460)
• Speculum historiale, 1463; several images, including the siege of Jerusalem (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 88), torture of the Jewish mothers (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 158v), arrest of Christ (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 229), martyrdom of St. Prime and St. Felician (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 66), St. Fermin (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 243), death of St. Ambroise (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 301v), funeral of St. Alexis (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 305v)
• Moses fights Sion, illustrated chronicles (ÖNB 2823, fol. 127r), 1463
• The kiss of Judas, a book of hours (Bibl. Mazarine 473, fol. 13), 1465
• Tristan discovered in Iseult’s bedroom, Tristan de Léonois (BNF Fr. 102, fol. 69v), c. 1470
• Brut wants to avenge his daughter, Romans de la Table Ronde (BNF Fr. 112 (3), fol. 92v), c. 1470
• The siege of a city, Hainault’s Chronicles (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 810, fol. 4), c. 1470
• The martyrdom of St. Afra, c. 1475-1485
• Retable of the Passion by Master Arnt, c. 1483
• St. Afra, c. 1495-1505
• Instruments of the Passion, a book of hours (PML M.390, fol. 170r), c. 1500
• Judas’s betrayal from an altarpiece, c. 1500-1510
• A Man with a Torch and a Woman Followed by a Fool by Lucas van Leyden, c. 1508
• Detail from The Arrest of Christ by Hans Köhler, c. 1513-1520
• Three couples in a circle dance and Masquerade, c. 1515
• An illustration for Freydal with three masked men bearing torches, by Albrecht Dürer, 1516
• The Torch-Bearers from a series of prints of wedding dancers by Heinrich Aldegrever, 1538
• Detail from The Battle of Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
• The torch-bearer by René Boyvin
• Detail from The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco, 1586-1588
• Flagellation, after Palma Vecchio, 1594
• The Masquerades, by Jacob de Gheyn II, 1595-1596; see British Museum 1878,0713.2630 & 1878,0713.2633
• The Passion by Hendrick Goltzius, 1597
• Detail from The Seven Acts of Mercy by Caravaggio, 1607
• A boy lighting a torch by Jan Lievens, c. 1668