The Brazen Bull
( The Brazen Bull) was a execution/torture device designed in ancient Greece. Perillos of Athens, a brass-founder proposed to Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, the invention of a new means for executing criminals; accordingly, he cast a brazen bull, made totally of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "red hot" and causing the person inside to slowly roast to death. So that 'nothing unseemly might spoil his feasting', Phalaris commanded that the bull be designed in such a way that its smoke rose in spicy clouds of incense. The head of the ox was designed with a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner's screams were converted into sounds like the bellowing of an infuriated bull.The Bull was built of steel with an opening where the victim would be stuffed in the belly and locked in. A fire would then be set under the belly of the Brazen Bull. The victim was essentially placed inside and then slowly burned and boiled alive until reaching certain death.just thinking of this device makes me shake my head, knowing that man could make such a device, Im heading out to a field to get some old barbed wire to make a frame for this painting.36by 24 inches.
The Brazen Bull
( The Brazen Bull) was a execution/torture device designed in ancient Greece. Perillos of Athens, a brass-founder proposed to Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, the invention of a new means for executing criminals; accordingly, he cast a brazen bull, made totally of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "red hot" and causing the person inside to slowly roast to death. So that 'nothing unseemly might spoil his feasting', Phalaris commanded that the bull be designed in such a way that its smoke rose in spicy clouds of incense. The head of the ox was designed with a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner's screams were converted into sounds like the bellowing of an infuriated bull.The Bull was built of steel with an opening where the victim would be stuffed in the belly and locked in. A fire would then be set under the belly of the Brazen Bull. The victim was essentially placed inside and then slowly burned and boiled alive until reaching certain death.just thinking of this device makes me shake my head, knowing that man could make such a device, Im heading out to a field to get some old barbed wire to make a frame for this painting.36by 24 inches.