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Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art
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Perpetua (and Felicity already martyred in the background)?
If the Sun newspaper had been around in those days, the lettuce would have kept its head a lot longer than Lady Jane!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce for those to whom that's a mystery)
Smilodontae
Onlooker
So Bukowski was sitting with the cashier doing his picture, while Géricault was painting her full frontal?
Division of labor?So Bukowski was sitting with the cashier doing his picture, while Géricault was painting her full frontal?
A other Matania
'Goodbye, Old Man': Painting depicting a British soldier comforting his dying horse on a road, 1916.
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This painting by Italian artist Fortunino Matania was commissioned by the Blue Cross animal charity fund in 1916 to raise money for horses on active service in the British Army during the First World War.
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Approximately 8 million horses were killed in the First World War, transporting guns, ammunition, resources and troops - dying to artillery strikes and exhaustion most of the time. A minority of horses were also killed as cavalry horses, charging into enemy barbed wire, rifle- and machine-gun fire.
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For this deeply moving painting, I'll recite the poem "The Silent Volunteers" by British Lieutenant Leonard Fleming:
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"NO less, real heroes than the men who died,
Are you who helped the frenzied ranks to win;
Galloping heroes - silently - side by side,
Models of discipline.
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You, too, had pals from whom you had to part,
Pals rather young to fight, or else too old -
And though the parting hurt your honest heart,
You kept your grief untold.
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Thus in the parting have you proved your worth,
As you have proved it time and time again;
You, the most human animal on earth -
Nobler perhaps than men.
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Nobler, perhaps, because in all you did,
In all you suffered, you could not know why;
Only, you guessed - and did as you were bid -
Just galloped on - to die.
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Unflinchingly, you faced the screaming shell,
And charged and charged, until the ground was gained,
Then falling, mangled, and suffered simple hell,
And never once complained.
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There, where your life blood spilled around you fast,
Lying unheeded by the surging van,
You closed your great big patient eyes at last.
And died - a gentleman."
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mysterybadger
Spectator
Some female combat from the days of yore.
"You cannot be serious! I am a noble woman" the lady declares.
"You are an adulterous whore and be punish like one" the executioner declares. "Now strip!"
Reluctantly she peels off her gown. She says "You are going to hang me in private."
"You will be hanged in the town square this evening" he says as he ties her hands behind her.
She is taken wearing nothing but the rope binding her hands to the square. Her anger at having the common folk seeing her bare body overwhelms her fear of being hanged- until she has a close look at the noose that she will be hanged with.
She proves no better than any other woman hanged in the square, performing the same lewd dance as she tries escape the noose closing around her throat.
Buy the crowd of commoners enjoyed seeing the noble lady hanged.....
mysterybadger
Spectator
Some pulpy peril.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
These illustrations prove that de Sade has been once a guest at Cruxton Abbey!