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

[ducon007]

"La Cautiva"
(Tha Captive)
By Juan Manuel Blanes

 

[mysterybadger]

Some Frazetta DIDs.
I might have enjoyed Lord of the Rings more if it had been more like the first image.

 

[mysterybadger]

Landsknechts during the sack of Rome and a scene from the 30 Years War.

 

[ducon007]

Some lithographs on paper from the series illustrated by Salvador Dali of the Marquis de Sade.

 

[mysterybadger]

Angus McBride

 

[ducon007]

"Bound slave girl"
By Jacques le Nantec

 

[cypher]

thanks, @ducon007, bound bronze ladies are so beautiful!!

 

[ducon007]

"Death and the Maiden"
By Jim Boden.

 

[mysterybadger]

There's a lot of it about..

 

[Loxuru]

There's a lot of it about..

Even an entire separate thread on this forum!

https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/death-and-the-maiden.4567/

 

[ducon007]

"The Captive"
By Costa Dvoresky.

 

[Rupert_137]

Captured by the pirates...

Who would have thought that pictures of the fairy tale Peter Pan children's story could have a serious character?

This is about drawings by Hildebrandt in 1987 for this tale:

Tiger Lily fights the pirates

Tiger Lily captured by the pirates

Oh, that doesn't look good at all for the proud Indian princess Tiger Lily, who has so far leaned on all men...
Will the pirates submit to her high demands? I'm afraid not...

Here's another modern version:
Maddie Hasson tied up in ropes by pirates (silver hedgehog 2009)

 

[ducon007]

"The Abduction of Persephone"
By James Childs

 

[thehangingtree]

"The Abduction of Persephone"
By James Childs

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"No, you fool! Not without a condom!!!"

 

[Loxuru]

"No, you fool! Not without a condom!!!"

Don't worry! The guy who abducts her is Hades, the god of the dead and the king of the underworld. Some sort of business associate of @Jollyrei .
Hades is her uncle too, by the way!

 

[Rupert_137]

Don't worry! The guy who abducts her is Hades, the god of the dead and the king of the underworld. Some sort of business associate of @Jollyrei .
Hades is her uncle too, by the way!

What an evil uncle!
Of course, Hades, as the god of a dark underworld, longs for a figure of light like Persephone...
But that doesn't excuse his shameful actions as a god!

 

[ducon007]

"Christians condemned to death in the arena"
Original woodcut by Richard Bong, after a painting by Giacomo Mantegazza around 1895

 

[mysterybadger]

"Christians condemned to death in the arena"
Original woodcut by Richard Bong, after a painting by Giacomo Mantegazza around 1895

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"This is no time for a selfie!"

 

[ducon007]

"In Danann's Grove"
(Celtic Mythology)
By Shaun W. Kerr

 

[coldturkey]

I am no longer a regular contributor on this forum, but I could not resist sharing this particularly graphic wood engraving of two village women being impaled for the sadistic amusement of marauding Cossacks, part of a set of twelve, that seems to be in the same vein as Gottfried Sieben's Balkangreuel...
For the whole collection, along with 52 other pages of fetishist fantasy, it is available for purchase for the modest sum of 15,000 euros :

https://www.asherbooks.com/item/_photography_erotica_sadomasochism_rabier_hector_compiler___binding_title_peines_et_supplices_france_belgium_early.html