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The Agony Component.

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Not exactly an agony display, but a previously shown lady taking a sponge-on-a-spear break.
 

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And divorced twice. Had trouble making up his mind of the best way to dispose of a wife.

He actually varied the methods. Anne Boleyn was decapitated with a sword, Catherine Howard with an axe.

Sorry. The history geek within burst forth pedantically.
 
Michele Patri and Badia's most similar compositions, both involving actual criminals rather than virtuous Christian martyrs or other unlucky innocents, which is unfortunate because my own sick fantasies involve innocents at the mercy of the wicked.

(Many thanks to Jastrow, who often indulges me. :very_hot:)
 

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I’ll say this one more time, then let it rest. It took me years to warm to Weru's style.

I have. :very_hot:
Expressive.
He is, kind of, the Francisco Goya of photo manipulation. :eek:
 
Expressive.
He is, kind of, the Francisco Goya of photo manipulation. :eek:

Whoa.

Weru's crux scenes are searing, but I never mentally linked them to the high octane nightmare fuel that makes up "Disasters of War." :eek:
 

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both involving actual criminals rather than virtuous Christian martyrs or other unlucky innocents, which is unfortunate because my own sick fantasies involve innocents at the mercy of the wicked.
Who knows? One man's criminal is another man's innocent. Like Barb always claims to be innocent despite crashing the site.
 
Who knows? One man's criminal is another man's innocent.

And then there’s all that 8th Amendment business, in the sense the Romans didn’t have one.

Another thing—although crucifixion was acknowledged to be cruel, it was by no means unusual.
 

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And then there’s all that 8th Amendment business, in the sense the Romans didn’t have one.
In a sense they did.

If you were a citizen, most of the cruel and unusual punishments were forbidden.

If you were a slave, you were presumed guilt, required to be tortured before testimony and trial, and subject to the most horrid torture and death.

See! Rule of Law!


In #2, I like the people frolicking in the river while this is going on!
 
Some of the best manips bring to mind the wonderful poem:

Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.


In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.


Written December 1938 in Brussels, one month after Kristallnacht.
 
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Some of the best manips bring to mind the wonderful poem:

Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
I have always like the idea that, while the woman is suffering on the cross, the banal activities of life go on around her.
And, I've always liked that Breughel painting.
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Breughel most have had a sense of humor.
 
I have always like the idea that, while the woman is suffering on the cross, the banal activities of life go on around her.
And, I've always liked that Breughel painting.
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Breughel most have had a sense of humor.
brueghel-census.jpgAnd the miraculous birth while children skate on a pond
 
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