Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Bad News......Baracus is currently working on a new multi-part story....
(just thought I'd warn you.....
Lol
Incoming!!!Take cover!
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I just listened to Jeannie C. Reily's 'Harper Valley PTA'. I doubt I was 10 when it came out and certainly didn't understand why my mom thought my virgin ears were being assaulted...
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
I'm sure there's a more on target thread, but I'm too lazy to search.
Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish Rome-based painter. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman world. Among his works are Nero's Torches which has been manipulated on CF several times
And the Sword Dancer which evokes ideas in my story Belly Dancer
I recently ran across this marvelous painting,
Christian Dirce by Henryk Siemiradzki
Here he is illustrating a story told by the Roman historian (muckraker?) Suetonius about Nero. Nero, in his interest in myth and theater, decreed that the story of Dirce be re enacted in the amphitheater using a young Christian maiden. In the Myth, Dirce, queen of Thebes is put to death by being tied to the horns of a bull and smashed against rocks. In his final great historical painting, Siemiradzki depicts the end of this ruthless spectacle - the moment when the pleased Emperor examines the lifeless girl and the fallen beast. One feels sorry for the bull.
On a literary note, the artists friend, Henryk Sienkiewcz was author of the great novel, Quo Vadis, and includes in it a similar scene where the christian girl Ligia is tied to the back of an ox.
Any girls here want to volunteer for the part?
Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish Rome-based painter. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman world. Among his works are Nero's Torches which has been manipulated on CF several times
And the Sword Dancer which evokes ideas in my story Belly Dancer
I recently ran across this marvelous painting,
Christian Dirce by Henryk Siemiradzki
Here he is illustrating a story told by the Roman historian (muckraker?) Suetonius about Nero. Nero, in his interest in myth and theater, decreed that the story of Dirce be re enacted in the amphitheater using a young Christian maiden. In the Myth, Dirce, queen of Thebes is put to death by being tied to the horns of a bull and smashed against rocks. In his final great historical painting, Siemiradzki depicts the end of this ruthless spectacle - the moment when the pleased Emperor examines the lifeless girl and the fallen beast. One feels sorry for the bull.
On a literary note, the artists friend, Henryk Sienkiewcz was author of the great novel, Quo Vadis, and includes in it a similar scene where the christian girl Ligia is tied to the back of an ox.
Any girls here want to volunteer for the part?
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
I believe that is in the original book.In polish version quo vadis movie by Kawalerowicz this gladiator Ursus rescue Ligia and kill the bull by broking his neck with bare hands
Rias
Neko Girl
It was in trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz "Pan Wołodyjowski" "Potop" and "Ogniem i Mieczem" I can give not correct the order of the titles, all last movie i watch many many Times cuz was fav of the trilogy, and also watch second too, but i cannot start watch first cuz when i see its too old movie and the effect even sound was little crap, also this book "Potop" one of the biggest books i even read.
Migoz2
Senator
Ummmmm .... I think I’ll pass on the offer ...
But you get rescued (for once)
Migoz2
Senator
No any free more archeology volunteers in researches
*Looks interested to see if anyone wants to put themselves forward*
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
In the 1951 movie, Ligia (Deborah Kerr) was tied to a pole and would be cushed by the bull.
Indeed, his paintings have been popular on the Forums, you'll find a few manipulated versions in our cellars.
Here's another of his tasty treats:
Of course!
Dorothy Brown likes bulls too,
but it's not the horns she'd want to be tied to,
it's the horny bit she wants!
(Pasiphae, not Dirce)
Migoz2
Senator
And the youth of today think CMNF is a new thing.......
A more interesting.....arrangement!
Migoz2
Senator
It's sort of mirrored on the right in the background. Styka is either suggesting that the Romans are doomed to be brought down by their own self-indulgent decadence, or he just liked women in peril.......
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Another of his works (unfortunately less erotic) is the Burial of a Varangian Chieftain, 1883
I wonder how many here know who the Varangians were? @Barbaria1 , you should.
I wonder how many here know who the Varangians were? @Barbaria1 , you should.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
It's Friskies Time!
Yep ... Vikings trading, looting, slaving, pillaging and raping on the rivers of Russia