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

[ducon007]

"Nude girl on table being autopsied by doctor"
Photography by Fritz W. Guerin
ca. 1900

 

[Eulalia]

"Nude girl on table being autopsied by doctor"
Photography by Fritz W. Guerin
ca. 1900

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she doesn't look very dead - isn't that usually a requirement?

 

[captivecuties]

she doesn't look very dead - isn't that usually a requirement?

Maybe not here!

 

[ducon007]

"L'orgie biblique. David"
(The biblical orgy. David)
Illustrations by Charles Atamian for the Carolus Didier's novel (1906)

 

[ducon007]

A repost, probably.
But there's nothing wrong with that...

"Jeune femme au lion"
(Maiden with lion)
Or also:
"Dans l'arène"
(In the arena)
By Henri Courselles-Dumont (1856-1928)

 

[Zephirantes]

Two artworks for the same scene by Ernest Jean Delahaye:
"La Recéleuse"
(A receiver of stolen goods)
1904

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"Le Général Bonaparte condamne la Cantinière à être promenée toute nue sur un âne"
(General Bonaparte condemns La Cantinière to be carried naked on a donkey)
1909

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Conviction by General Bonaparte of a canteen maid guilty of concealing silver stolen by soldiers during the Italian campaign.
The episode is attested to in the memoirs of Captain Jean Coignet.

Too bad it wasn't a wooden donkey.

Chinese civilization seemed to be much more advanced in this regard in the XVIII century...

 

[ducon007]

"Reitre et Captive"
(Reiter and captives)
By Gustave Moreau (ca. 1880)

 

[vadim69]

 

[Eva Inanna]

A realistic AI painting

Aphrodite, a Greek bronze, circa 199-100 BC

 

[coldturkey]

I've been silent of late, but am continuing my explorations... Thought this engraving belonged on this forum

“La Mort de Mademoiselle de Sombreuil”
from Victor Hugo's 'Odes et ballades', 1885
engraved by Henri Émile Lefort (1852–1937)

 

[ducon007]

I've been silent of late, but am continuing my explorations... Thought this engraving belonged on this forum

“La Mort de Mademoiselle de Sombreuil”
from Victor Hugo's 'Odes et ballades', 1885
engraved by Henri Émile Lefort (1852–1937)

Welcome back, "Dindon froid" !

 

[ducon007]

Illustration for Boccaccio's Decameron by Gino Boccasile (1950)

 

[vampireamorph]

I've been silent of late, but am continuing my explorations... Thought this engraving belonged on this forum

“La Mort de Mademoiselle de Sombreuil”
from Victor Hugo's 'Odes et ballades', 1885
engraved by Henri Émile Lefort (1852–1937)

I really liked it. Are there other classical arts like this?

 

[ducon007]

Illustration for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" of William Shakespeare.
By Umberto Brunelleschi (1947).

 

[ducon007]

The "dragonnades" in the Cévennes under Louis XIV (1643-1715), persecution of Protestants.
Unknown artist.

 

[ducon007]

"Pope Pius V preside over the tribunal of the Inquisition"
French school, anonymous artist.

 

[thehangingtree]

"Pope Pius V preside over the tribunal of the Inquisition"
French school, anonymous artist.

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Pope Pius was a horny perverted prick...

 

[Loxuru]

"Pope Pius V preside over the tribunal of the Inquisition"
French school, anonymous artist.

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Pope Pius was a horny perverted prick...

Really? Apparently, judging from the painting, he was so "horny and perverted", that he fell asleep during the interrogation!

 

[thehangingtree]

View attachment 1586273 Really? Apparently, judging from the painting, he was so "horny and perverted", that he fell asleep during the interrogation!

The pope is trying to see her pussy that the damn priest holding the gold object is blocking his view...