School corporal punishment (antiquity-1699)
The following historic illustrations depict school corporal punishment from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance era, up to 1699.
Many of these images come from historical German school books and were collected by the free website Pictura Paedagogica Online and other sources. All of these images are public domain.
In Antiquity
- In Antiquity
Flogging of boys in Sparta, engraving by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg (1784).
Gilt bronze mirror cover with representation of spanking in schoolroom (Roman, 1st century CE, probably from Asia Minor)
Scene at a Roman school (after a fresco painting at Herculaneum).
Middle Ages
- In The Middle Ages
From a twelfth-century manuscript now in Durham Cathedral Library.
School scene in the middle ages. From a carving on a Stall in Sherborne Minster.
Codex Manesse, fol. 292v, Der Schulmeister von Eßlingen (14th century).
A master strikes a boy’s hand with a palmatoria (c. 1309-1316).
Medieval illustration of a school birching.
"Civic profession" (Watchmaker - Teacher - Organ builder - Painter - Gold smith - Sculptor). After 1480.
Detail of the schoolmaster birching scene.
Other version.
A Birching in a School of Mendicant Monks (15th century), engraving from 1878.
Illuminated initial by Jacobus Anglicus showing a lay schoolmaster birching a boy who is held by an usher or senior pupil. From the Omne Bonum of Jacobus Anglicus (14th century).
Schoolmaster and pupils, illustration from a 15th century manuscript.
Schoolmaster at the doorstep of the school house, with pupils in the street. Illustration from a 15th century manuscript.
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro Gozzoli (1453-1478): The School of Tagaste. Fresco (1464-1465)
Detail of the same
Coat of arms of Morten Børup (16th century).
The seal of Louth Grammar School from 1552.
Coat of arms of Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden.
Satirical representation of a school scene by Pieter Bruegel the elder, c. 1570
Same work, after Pieter Bruegel the elder, c. 1570
Contemporary woodcut of a Tudor grammar school (1592).
1600s
- in the 1660s
Guaman Poma, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615)
Guaman Poma, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615)
"Schulstube mit Portrait einer Familie" (Schoolroom with portrait of a family), painting by Jan Miense Molenaer (1634).
Die Schule (The school), painting by Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638)
"The schoolmistress", etching by Abraham Bosse (detail) (c. 1638)
Schulstube mit Portrait einer Familie (Schoolroom with portrait of a family), painting by Jan Miense Molenaer (1634).
The Schoolmaster, painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1662).
De schoolmeester by Jan Steen (1663).
Der strenge Schulmeister (The Severe Teacher), painting by Jan Steen (c. 1668).
Schoolmeester geeft een jongen de plak by Jan van Somer, 1676.
"The Dutch School", engraving by Isaac Beckett, c. 1681-1688
"Schoolmeester" (Schoolmaster) by Dirck de Bray, c. 1650-1694
Schoolroom of the 17th centrury
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