Saturday, 19 June 2010

Schmalz


Colosseum art! (And thus, more sex and death.)

Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856-1935) painted this spectacularly pervy picture: Faithful Unto Death (1888) - also known as Christians and Lions. Who would have guessed that those early Christians would all be beautiful young women, eh?
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5 comments:

  1. Craig Sorensen19 June 2010 at 10:06

    Small wonder Christianity caught on.

    ;-)

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  2. Jo19 June 2010 at 10:11

    They are being quite sexy about waiting to be ripped apart by maddened beasts.

    Can you imagine?

    The waiting part, not the sexy part.

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  3. Danielle19 June 2010 at 12:31

    ahh i know that painting from art class ..like..errr* early 90ies???

    so long ago..but back then i had less pervy ideas about it:-)

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  4. Janine Ashbless20 June 2010 at 17:47

    It's a new painting to me, but I am very pleased with it, Danielle.

    The pervy bit is of course is the spectator is SUPPOSED to be thinking "Oh those poor martyrs! How brave!" but is secretly and inevitably thinking "Phwoar!"

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  5. Janine Ashbless6 July 2010 at 11:29

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