Copyright: BnF

ID: 21
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Lingchi in Buddhist Hell
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Repository: BNF
Color: Hand-tinted
Caption: no caption
Particulars: Watercolor on pith-paper
Topic: Lingchi 凌遲
Description: This scene is representative of the esthetical hibridity of the Chinese export watercolors. At right, an unfortunate is inflicted a lingchi by a sardonic demon-faced executioner, while in the foreground another torturer is seizing his victim to throw him on broken glass carpet. Lingchi scene evince Christian influence (crucifixion, duel between a suffering tormented and a cruel tormentor, under compassioned glance of two witnesses), the whole seems to take place in a Buddhist Hell.
Keyword: lingchi, breasts, nipples, post, woman, hell, demons

Related Replication (1)

1  Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
    Title: Crucifixion-like lingchi (with breast tortures, mostly)
    Information: One of the most frequently reproduced model represented a convict, most of the time a woman, tyed on a pole similar to the Christian cross, and having his breast tortured as a preliminary to dismemberment. The model might have been provided by Christian iconography, for instance the "Martyrdom of St Agatha", who had her nipples cut by tortioners. Christian cross can also be found on crucifixion-like stranguation and decapitation. Variations include tortioners handling a kind of screen against blood pollution, and starting disembowelment instead of (or joined to?) breast wounds.

Related VisualSet (1)

1  Title: Aquarelles de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
    DocumentNature: Watercolor

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