ID: 2
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.

Artworks

	1:Title: Lingchi (woman) no caption
	2:Title: Lingchi (woman) Nüren hechi 女人合池
	3:Title: Lingchi with breast torture of a woman
	4:Title: Lingchi (woman?)
	5:Title: Lingchi (woman) 11. Ling ch'ee (i.e. cutting off of the flesh of the criminal piece by piece
	6:Title: Lingchi in Buddhist Hell no caption
	7:Title: Martyrdom of St Agatha The Martyrdom of Agatha, by Sebastiano del Piombo
	8:Title: Martyrdom of St Agatha A Mosaic in the Church of Ris (Auvergne)

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