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The stark realism you’ll see in Caravaggio’s Flagellation and the Seven Works of Mercy launched a whole Neapolitan school of “Caravaggeschi” displayed here.
Archaeologists, still unsure of what was involved, suggest that the gorgeously painted scenes of dancing satyrs, flagellation, and a woman kneeling before a sacred phallus indicate rites that the town preferred to keep at a decorous distance, in this splendid suburban villa, most likely the home of a priestess.
Their custom of self-punishment, in the form of flagellation during the Holy Week ceremonies, aroused much interest and was reported widely in many East Coast publications.
There are fourteen essays in the collection, and if anyone ever had any question about how to distinguish erotica from pornographica, the answer lies in these pages: some of these essays are clearly erotic (“Bottoms Up!The Fine Arts and Flagellation,” “Robert Musil: What Price Homosexual Sadism?
To the right of the chapel is a fragment of rare jasper said to come from the column to which Jesus was tied for his flagellation.