Sujet

French Wars of Religion, 16th century, (1587), 1877. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

French Wars of Religion, 16th century, (1587), 1877. Violence by French Huguenots, (French Calvinist Protestants) against Catholics. On the right: noblewoman from Montbrun (Charente, France) being tortured by soldiers whom she had generously welcomed. Left ( below): Jean Arnould, the king's prosecutor in Angoulême, is strangled after having been mutilated several times. On the left ( above): the widow of the public prosecutor of the town's criminal court is dragged by her hair through the streets. After "Theatrum Crudelitatum Nostri Temporis", 1587. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.

Date

1587

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A20_309

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

38.7Mo (6.2Mo) / 36.0cm x 26.9cm / 4252 x 3179 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors Europe female holding women woman people male interior group man men historical religious sitting arts country French France religion body bodies art book guy violence burning fire flame flames continent feet foot European medieval Christianity column pillar pillars kneeling war cruelty location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic inside sole print literature concept violent TORTURE seated B&W strangling posture dragging cruel engraved engraving mutilation strangulation unforgiving Protestant Protestantism 19th century Indoors nobility black & white black and white B W mediaeval aristocracy aristocrat Middle Ages persecution Roman Catholicism 16th century 1870s nineteenth century sixteenth century history historic French Religious Wars Huguenot noblewoman the body torturer outside street engraving portrait mutilated Unknown Jean Richard Richard Rowlands Rowlands Richard Verstegan Richard Verstegen French Wars of Religion 1580s 1877 merciless 19th-century Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Agee Verstegan LT L Theatrum Crudelitatum Nostri Temporis Jean Arnould Arnould Verstegen Richardus Versteganus