#scaffold

[supplyside]

under construction

[thingsdavidlikes]

Hot Salt Beef by Dave Fieldhouse Photography

[badcodec]

[vanpeltfoto]

Industry

(Photo: d.)

[willemsborg]

Elbtower. Zweibrückenstraße, Hamburg 10/2024

Foto: Vanja Stockhausen

[royalty-nobility]

Charles I, 1600 - 1649. Reigned 1625 - 1649 (The Execution of Charles I)

Artist: Unknown, formerly attributed to Jan Weesop (fl. 1641–1652)

Date: c. 1649

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

This painting, probably based on eye-witness accounts and contemporary engravings, records the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 at Whitehall, after a long and bitter civil war. The inset pictures on the left show Charles as he appeared at his trial, and below, Charles walking to the scaffold. Those on the right show the moments immediately after the execution: the axeman holds up Charles's severed head while spectators hurry to dip their handkerchiefs in royal blood. The central image, with the swooning woman, hints at a parallel with Christ's crucifixion.

[endlessandrea]

Veronica Ryan, Scaffold, 2021-2022 Metal shelf, bronze, zip ties, empty coffee pods, sculpey, hydrocal, beads, self-hardening clay, bandages, thread, fishing line, plastic net, embroidery ring 63 3/8 × 36 1/2 × 26 inches (161 × 92.7 × 66 cm)

Photo: Steven Probert © Veronica Ryan Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York