Sujet

French Wars of Religion: violence by French Huguenots against Catholics, 1587 (1877). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

French Wars of Religion: violence by French Huguenots, (French Calvinist Protestants), against Catholics, 1587, (1877). 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. (Colorised black and white print).

Date

1877

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A46_346

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NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50.2Mo (3.1Mo) / 41.0cm x 30.7cm / 4843 x 3621 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors Europe female women woman people male interior group man men historical religious arts country French France religion body bodies law book guy violence burning fire flame flames continent feet foot European color Christianity column pillar pillars military war cruelty Renaissance location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic inside soldier literature concept violent Rivalry TORTURE rival cruel strangled engraved engraving mutilation colourised strangulation Protestant Protestantism Colour 19th century legal system prosecutor Indoors nobility aristocracy aristocrat Roman Catholicism 16th century 1870s nineteenth century sixteenth century history historic French Religious Wars Huguenot noblewoman the body outside street engraving portrait mutilated Unknown Jean Richard Paul Richard Rowlands Rowlands Richard Verstegan Richard Verstegen Paul Lacroix Lacroix French Wars of Religion 1580s colorised 1877 1587 19th-century Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Agee Verstegan LT L Theatrum Crudelitatum Nostri Temporis Jean Arnould Arnould Verstegen Richardus Versteganus