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Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art
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John69
Condemned
Painting by Joseph Aubert depicting drowning at Nantes during the French revolutions reign of terror.
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ducon007
Senator
By the sinister Jean-Baptiste Carrier. Fortunately (?) guillotined a few months later (December 16, 1794).
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Because he surpassed his authority, by ordering the drownings.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
To point out : 'Sardanapalus' is the man in the upper left corner, calmly watching the massacre. According to legend, Sardanapalus was a wealthy legendary Assyrian king, who, after having been defeated by the Persians, ordered to have his entire court murdered (including his harem, that's what the painting shows), and his palace destroyed, before he commited suicide.
cynthia the inocent
Tribune
YES, YES. Without a doubt, the reason I love to be tied and blindfolded is because the feeling of helplessness turns me on
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Gustave Doré! Unsurpassed artwork. Dark, threatening and erotic.
Naraku
Draconarius
In 1911 "L'Inferno", based on Dante's work, was influenced by Dore's prints. became one of the first Italian films to achieve international success, grossing $2 million (1911 dollars) in the US. Footage was reused in US films, including a 1924 (no mostly lost) remake, the comedy "Hell's-a-Popping", a a totally unrelated 1935 Spencer Tracey movie. Because it was made in Europe and pre-code, nude was included in the original - though not the later films.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Rupert_137
Magistrate
Not a real damsel, but this time I would like to turn the tables:
Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae, has the Persian king's head cut off and immersed it in a vat filled with blood so that his bloodlust can finally be satisfied
(report by Herodotus, image by Michiel Van Coxci).
Cyrus the Great had already conquered a vast empire when in 530 BC he also wanted to force the Massagetae Empire under his rule, whose queen Tomyris he considered weak. She was much stronger than he thought and this mistake sould prove to be fatal for him...
Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae, has the Persian king's head cut off and immersed it in a vat filled with blood so that his bloodlust can finally be satisfied
(report by Herodotus, image by Michiel Van Coxci).
Cyrus the Great had already conquered a vast empire when in 530 BC he also wanted to force the Massagetae Empire under his rule, whose queen Tomyris he considered weak. She was much stronger than he thought and this mistake sould prove to be fatal for him...
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
In a surrealist dreamscape (inspired by Giorgio De Chirico)?
mysterybadger
Spectator
"Blaspheming Border Babe Barbarously Boosted Branchwards" was how the Eastern papers desctibed the lynching of Ella Watson and James Averill in 1884. Watson and Averill were smallholders who got embroiled in disputes over land and water rights with the Wyoming cattle barons. Accusing them of cattle rustling, the ranchers not only took them from their homes and lynched them but immediately began a PR campaign to justify the crime: Watson became "Cattle Kate", a rooting, tooting, straight shooting whore who ran a bawdy house and took payment in stolen cattle. The incident was dismissed as part of the general rambunctiousness of a lawless West where honest businessmen were forced to take desperate measures. By the time the true story began to emerge it was too late--and any witnesses had either fled or been murdered.
The killers were never punished and the legend of "Cattle Kate" persisted down the years, even in the suposedly sympathetic movie Heaven's Gate where she is again portrayed (by Isabel Huppert) as a brothel keeper and receiver of stolen goods.
The killers were never punished and the legend of "Cattle Kate" persisted down the years, even in the suposedly sympathetic movie Heaven's Gate where she is again portrayed (by Isabel Huppert) as a brothel keeper and receiver of stolen goods.
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Rupert_137
Magistrate
Thank you for images and background information on this interesting case of lynch murder!
And one more image "Lynching Cattle Kate":
