(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Seventeen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

The theme of a woman consoling a man is a common one in classical painting. Here is an appealing example of one that I found recently.

Francis Stephne Cary (1808-1880), Consolation (1842)

Cary wasn’t known to me before, but he’s been of a kind of significance as a teacher of artists whose work has featured at Erotic Mad Science, including both John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

This version of the image found here, with thanks to British Paintings for additional biographical detail on Cary.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Sixteen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

The theme of the intellectual explorer who disappears into the insane clutter of his laboratory, neglecting the world outside in an obsessive quest has deep roots in the genre of alchemist paintings. An example, found at WikiPaintings:

David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), The Alchemist

Keep seeking, Aloysius!

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Fifteen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

And for those of you who don’t like this sort of thing, here is a basket of kittens.

There. Now everybody’s happy.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Fourteen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

And we all know what sort of imagery “south seas natives” bring to mind, don’t we?

A movie poster for Tiara Tahiti (1962) which pretty well sums up what most people will think at the phrase “south seas natives.” It’s part of a great big cool collection of the same at the appropriately-named site South Seas Cinema.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Found at Drake’s Way.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Thirteen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

The theme of Artemis seems appropriate.

Pierre-August Renoir (1841-1919), Diana as huntress (1867)

It seems worth noting that Renoir’s Diana, presented here as an ideal female type, has a body-type much more like that of Maureen than is typical for “ideals” of today.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Twelve written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Maureen manifests Diana the Huntress…

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), Diana the Huntress

…only with a shotgun microphone rather than a bow.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Eleven written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

It’s tricky to find a really good image for something as dramatic as this, but I shall note that if you go to Goolge and do an image search on “anal sex Jesus” you can come up with some very curious artifacts, like this one, which some alert person photographed and which does seem thematically apropos.

No, I don’t know how to interpret this either, really, but it can be found at Llama Republic.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Ten written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

I googled “fucked up church signs” looking for pendant pictures for these posts and Jumping Jehosephat did I find lots. There might be one for every occasion. At least, there certainly is one for this one.

Found here.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

(Click on the image for larger size.
Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Nine written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

I have it on good authority from at least one community of religious believers that Lola is doing it the right way.

Found at Geek Girl Smash.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites