Strappado 1

drawing, digitally coloured

Gordon Napier, November, 2006

...The torture chambers of the Toulouse Inquisition, where souls are torn apart in order to be saved. Where for some time she has been receiving the attentions of the minions of the sadistic prior, whose terrible shadow smothers the rose of cities.

The rope reaches up to a pulley, and down to a windlass, where unsympathetic men await the signal from the dark-robed Dominican.