As in that great Titian, here is a helpless being, suspended upside down, undergoing ritual humiliation.
They were, variously, beaten, starved, suspended upside down from the ceiling, waterboarded.
Huge scabs on their legs matched detainees' descriptions of being suspended upside down with their lower legs trapped between bars.
Ejiofor has spent significant time already, he tells me, 50ft above the theatre floor, suspended upside down.
Similar routines involved crumpled beer cans, flower pots suspended upside down, a toy piano and sheets of soft aluminum.
He was suspended upside down and "repeatedly dunked into a tank of water", says the court document.
Instead, they found the entire family nearly unscathed, with all three children suspended upside down, still securely strapped in their car seats.
But the theater audience is always aware that the actor suspended upside down in a torture scene in "Inishmore" is simply displaying impressive physical stamina.
The chandeliers in her dining room, for instance, are copper sink basins, suspended upside down from industrial-strength cable; an electrical socket stoppers each drain.
He spent six days in this position, before being unshackled, beaten on his feet, subjected to electric shocks, suspended upside down and beaten again.
And it's not enough merely to sing Sober while suspended upside down: Pink executes graceful backflips while she's at it.
