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

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"Les Andromèdes"
(The Andromeda)
Attributed to Victor Guerrier (1893-1968).

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Barbaria, Eulalia and Messaline? Wait, the third one is a redhead. It must be ERIN.

 

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"Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret"
By Willam Etty.
(No idea who can be Britomart and Faire Amoret...)

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Britomart is a female knight in Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queen" who rescues many distressed damsels ( and also dis-dressed damsels!)

She also rescues her lover Artegall and several other knights from slavery to the evil Amazon Radigund, in spite of all their pleas not to be rescued..

 

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Britomart is a female knight in Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queen" who rescues many distressed damsels ( and also dis-dressed damsels!)

She also rescues her lover Artegall and several other knights from slavery to the evil Amazon Radigund, in spite of all their pleas not to be rescued..

Thanks a lot!

 

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Marble statue of Margaret Wilson (Knox College, Toronto, Canada) executed in 1685 by drowning for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII of Scotland as head of the church.