Various forms of mutilation and torture; including flagellation; decapitation; burning; hanging; drowning; quartering; cutting off of hands and ears and impaling on the rack. The image is part of a Layenspiel; an illustration for a book for the educated layman; from Augsburg of 1512; Germany; Historic; digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original; Europe.
Various forms of mutilation and torture; including flagellation; decapitation; burning; hanging; drowning; quartering; cutting off of hands and ears and impaling on the rack. The image is part of a Layenspiel; an illustration for a book for the educated layman; from Augsburg of 1512; Germany; Historic; digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original; Europe