Thumbscrew (torture)
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The thumbscrew, is a torture instrument which was first used in early modern Europe. It is a simple vise, sometimes with protruding studs on the interior surfaces. Victims' fingers or toes were placed
17th-century thumbscrew, Märkisches Museum Berlin
17th-century thumbscrew, Märkisches Museum Berlin
Scottish thumbscrew
Scottish thumbscrews
Artemisia Gentileschi
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Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing p
Thumbscrew (torture)
…both be applied to them..." In 1612 the Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi accused his colleague, Agostino Tassi, of raping his daughter, the painter Artemisia Gentileschi. During the five-month long trial, Artemisia was cross-examined under thumb-screw torture. As late as the mid-18th century, the ex-slave Olaudah Equiano…
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638–39
Judith and Her Maidservant, 1625, Detroit Institute of Arts
Susanna and the Elders, 1610, earliest of her surviving works, Schönborn Collection, Pommersfelden
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1610–1615, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest