Victorian Era paintings had so much cultural significance and beautiful stories incorporated into them

Lorena Bobbit obviously wasn't the first then.

This is not Victorian. It is from "Le livre des échecs amoureux moralisés" , from the year 1401.

And I agree that the post should be tagged Adult.

Why isn't this marked as adult?

Well that made my eyes water.

OFF with his...junk?

I don't know the painting and its date, but it is obviously Mediaeval (pre-Renaissance), not Victorian (mid to end 19C).

The clothes and the distorted perspective are the immediate give-away.

Less obviously, Mediaeval artists were not afraid to portray graphic violence in what were generally violent times.

They also tended to think everyone had always dressed as they, the artists and contemporaries, did; as you see in Mediaeval depictions of Biblical characters.

There were many Victorian painters and photographers of sexual subjects, using contemporary clothes or fashions from Classical times according to the subject. The subject here seems too cruel and graphic for Victorians, too, who preferred their erotica and indeed pornography to be romantic and idyllic; in home, rural or Classical Mythical settings.

That’s a beautiful story ?

Wtf is going on there ? Lol

thanks for the heart Ms Piffy :)

that looks scary

That's from the Renaissance.

Ouch.

Oh man

A strange choice for a Victorian Painting.

If it was PreRafaelite I would understand

Victorian era: 1840ish to 1900 - when Queen Victoria, it's namesake reigned .

This isnt Victorian .

Try this one

Medieval rather than Victorian.

Very true

OMG