Sentenced to death, Marianne is awkwardly crucified in the town square. She can look down at her body which has given her and her lovers great pleasure and satisfaction. The crowd is pleased by her torment but by late day they will disappear to to take care of issues of their own lives.
The cats are in for some fine meat!!!
Number 4 looks like one of those old 1940s movies with the evil villain (usually Spanish) doing his dastardly worst (except for the lady's bare boobs of course).
"Evil villain" was french in thirties -
It looks like she is being rightly punished for flaunting those amazing breasts in public arousing lust among the men folk, and making their wives jealous! No doubt she has been very prideful in displaying them! Too much trouble for a small village, she must be taken down a peg!"Evil villain" was french in thirties -
Managed to find some alternative version of this work by Franz Reiff but note the massive differences between the engraving and the painting.
The breasts stand out better? In either image, it is easy to see the reverence shown the women before the clerics burn her to death...
Small comfort, Tree. But the execution was done by the secular authority. After condemnation - or abjuration - the Church "washed it's hands" of the matter and the poor women were sent to a terrible death by someone else.
