By commissioning these encyclopaedic scenes of torment and sacrifice the pope wished, by implication, to draw a parallel between the hostility of Protestantism to the true faith and the heroic resistance of Catholic believers".
By commissioning these encyclopaedic scenes of torment and sacrifice the pope wished, by implication, to draw a parallel between the hostility of Protestantism to the true faith and the heroic resistance of Catholic believers". So now you've learned something you probably never would have taken in otherwise, as you do throughout this glorious, breathless gallop from Romulus to Berlusconi.
They are scenes of torment that are not easily forgotten," he said.
We carve scenes of torment and pain into stone and line our places of worship with the resulting art.
The piece also clearly refers to 19th century French sculptor Auguste Rodin's "Gates of Hell," an enormous masterwork depicting scenes of torment perched on enormous double doors.
In a scene of brutal torment, they first flatter and laughingly mock her, then they cruelly shove and hit her and clamp a basin as a halo on her head.
It's a scene of complex torment at many levels, including that of Epps himself, whose orders blend sadistic pleasure, emotional pain, his boundless desire, his guilt, and his revulsion both at his desire and at its object.
He hates the stares, the people who turned against him, the hotel in the distance that was the scene of his torment.
There is another very sobering detail that catches our eye too: that partial sighting we get of what may be the only woman in this scene of wrenching, tormented male bodies.
Relationships were for him a theatre of power, like the leather-clad scenes of voluntary torment and abasement that he photographed; friends and associates had to be prepared to be used, and occasionally abused.
