Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art

[coldturkey]

For me, the most frightening interesting part of that NG art is the expression on the face of the matron in the foreground. If I were standing there half naked I would be fearful of being purchased by her! Yikes!

I had actually never realized that the prospective purchaser was a woman. Perhaps I was misled by the caption, but I always thought it was beardless man...

 

[ducon007]

I had actually never realized that the prospective purchaser was a woman. Perhaps I was misled by the caption, but I always thought it was beardless man...

If she is a matron, we understand better her expression of bitterness mixed with envy in front of the dream bodies of the two slave girls...!

 

[sifax]

Santa Eulalia de Barcelona by Bartolome Ordoñez (XVI century) in Cathedral of Barcelona

Eulalia flogged, crucified and roasted alive on a grill


In this 15th century painting by Bernat Martorell we can see how Saint Eulalia was tortured on her breasts while she was crucified

 

[Jollyrei]

She looks despaired by her capture, but she secretly prays Jollyrei will ravish her with his amazing eternal cock!

AS A GENTLEMAN, I REALLY COULD NOT COMMENT.

HEY, WHO'S THE WISE GUY WITH THE CAMERA!?

 

[montycrusto]

Eulalia flogged, crucified and roasted alive on a grill… Eulalia was tortured on her breasts while she was crucified

Wow.. @Eulalia has been busy while she was away!

 

[coldturkey]

If she is a matron, we understand better her expression of bitterness mixed with envy in front of the dream bodies of the two slave girls...!

Envy that will probably motivate a host of future humiliations and cruelties...

 

[Eulalia]

Wow.. @Eulalia has been busy while she was away!

And not necessarily in that order!

 

[Eulalia]

Hypatia of Alexandria, 4th-5th century female philosopher. Victim of religious intolerance. She is said to have been massacred with shards of pottery or oyster shells.
#1 by Charles William Mitchell
#4 by William Mortensen
Unknown artists for #2 and 3


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I think in some versions she was stabbed to death by the students in her philosophy class with their pens - maybe styluses used for writing on wax tablets (an early form of i-Pad) - though sharp shards and oyster shells were used for such writing too. Though if she dressed like #1 to give her lectures, well, who needs PowerPoint?

 

[Eulalia]

Next, this drawing of the 410 Sack of Rome by Alaric. From a history book for children...

Just the kind of innocent educational illustration that planted the seeds of my slavegirl fantasies!

 

[Loxuru]

Though if she dressed like #1 to give her lectures, well, who needs PowerPoint?

She would get all attention from her students, but will their mind be focused on the content of her lectures?

 

[Eulalia]

She would get all attention from her students, but will their mind be focused on the content of her lectures?

Well, these days, seeing the way students just copy whatever's on the screen without bothering to listen to the lecture, I wonder whether they'd even notice!

 

[montycrusto]

Well, these days, seeing the way students just copy whatever's on the screen without bothering to listen to the lecture, I wonder whether they'd even notice!

And then they go home and get ChatGPT to write their essays

 

[coldturkey]

As it is past midnight here, and as I will be busy tomorrow, I will post now my quota of images...
Does anyone know from what painting this depiction on a snuffbox is ?

 

[coldturkey]

Also, this drawing by Paul-Emile Bécat (1885-1960). The pirates are presumably checking out the virginity of their captives...

 

[coldturkey]

Benjamin-Constant, The Serbian Concubine, 1876

 

[coldturkey]

Another painting by Theodoros Rallis (1852-1909), the same artist as in page 1...

 

[coldturkey]

Regular followers might recall me posting an engraving featuring Lucretia's bush a few days ago. Here is another 1553 engraving featuring her labia. Those were the days before such intimate areas became taboo in art...

 

[Eulalia]

As it is past midnight here, and as I will be busy tomorrow, I will post now my quota of images...
Does anyone know from what painting this depiction on a snuffbox is ?

Well, she's surely been copied - perhaps using a camera lucida - from Gerome's Phryne painting that you posted a few days ago.

 

[coldturkey]

Well, she's surely been copied - perhaps using a camera lucida - from Gerome's Phryne painting that you posted a few days ago.

I believe it was @ducon007 that posted Gérome's Phryne the other day Her posture does seem very similar indeed, though it was of course a quite common pose...

 

[ducon007]

"Esclaves blanches dans le désert"
"White Slave Women in the Desert"
By Eugen-Ansen Hofmann