Victorian Era paintings had so much cultural significance and beautiful stories incorporated into them
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
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.
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.