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

[Wragg]

Thanks for the compliment @happyribbed ! I am on holidays for the next two weeks so posting on this thread will slow down, but I will be back soon

Enjoy your well-deserved break!

 

[Loxuru]

Thanks for the compliment @happyribbed ! I am on holidays for the next two weeks so posting on this thread will slow down, but I will be back soon

Enjoy your leave!

Enjoy your well-deserved break!

That's what they said to this girl too.

 

[ducon007]

Thanks for the compliment @happyribbed ! I am on holidays for the next two weeks so posting on this thread will slow down, but I will be back soon

We'll try to keep this thread alive until you return!

 

[coldturkey]

Thanks @Wragg, @Loxuru and @ducon007 !! Nothing like a nice good quartering to break the routine and stretch one's legs...
I'm sure this thread is in good hands and will be kept alive, continuously nourished as it is on the blood of sacrificed maidens !! See you soon

 

[ducon007]

Another artwork of Peter-Paul Rubens on the theme:
The Rape of the Daughters of Levkippos

 

[nailed girl]

torture
found by dog media
by roberta magnani

 

[happyribbed]

torture
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View attachment 1293039 by roberta magnani

out of the bystander’s point of view pliers had better use in the earlier centuries
definitely I prefer the second image over the first

 

[ducon007]

"La part du capitaine", by Charles-Edouard de Beaumont
(The captain's share)

 

[Jollyrei]

The girl's proportions look a bit wrong to me. The artist was obsessed with her bottom, I think.

 

[Loxuru]

The girl's proportions look a bit wrong to me. The artist was obsessed with her bottom, I think.

'The Captain' was most likely to!

 

[ducon007]

'The Captain' was most likely to!

In this case, we're not being picky! We take what's on the market!

 

[ducon007]

"Blind Destination"
By Eser Afacan (turkish artist).

 

[nailed girl]

waterboarding

unknown artists

 

[Loxuru]

"Blind Destination"
By Eser Afacan (turkish artist).

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Destination? The horse seems to go nowhere!

 

[ducon007]

waterboarding
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View attachment 1293808 unknown artists

Those are supposed to represent the torture of Marquise de Brinvilliers, famous poisoner under the reign of Louis XIV.

 

[ducon007]

Destination? The horse seems to go nowhere!

As for the tests of new medicines: double-blind test...

 

[ducon007]

Even the greatest have illustrated the myth of Andromeda: here Rembrandt.

 

[ducon007]

Two by Eduard Ansen-Hofmann:
"The Abduction"


"The Chase"

 

[ducon007]

"The Abduction", by John Buckland-Wright.

 

[ducon007]

"Captured", by William A. Breakspeare.