In a dreaming of escape, far away above the moutains and the moors. Dream in history, in smile. Hopes in the voluptuous dancing of a jellyfish. Car tel est notre bon plaisir.
Young Knight in a Landscape by Vittore Carpaccio,1510
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Iain Glen in the French/German production of “Borgia”, season 2…
#Daenerys abandonned meh# #So I took Holy Orders#
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562)
harryblackstonecopperfieldresden:
Fangirl Challenge | [5 Opening Credits]
#1: The Borgias
Paintings Used:
- Philippe de Croy [Rogier van der Weyden]
- Exposure of Luxury [Agnolo Bronzino]
- Lucretia [Lucas Cranach the Elder]
- Judith with the head of Holofernes [Lucas Cranach the Elder]
- Death of the Virgin [Caravaggio]
- Farinata degli Uberti alla Battaglia del Serchio [Giuseppe Sabatelli]
- Triumph of Neptune [Bon Boullogne]
- The Artist’s Sister Elena Anguissola as a Nun [Sofonisba Anguissola]
- Death and a Woman [Hans Baldung Grien]
- Zachariah in the Temple [Domenico Ghirlandaio]
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Various fantastic creatures and sea monsters from a map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez, 1562
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Leonardo da Vinci, Head of a girl
Favorite period pieces | Anonymous (2011)
Mid to late 1500s, England
dir: Roland Emmerich
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visually stunning movies → elizabeth: the golden age
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Pinturicchio, The Annunciation, 1501
From the Web Gallery of Art:
The paintings in the Baglioni Chapel in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Maggiore in Spello (Umbria) was commissioned by the papal protonotary Troilo Baglioni, who served as prior of the church before he was appointed bishop of Perugia in 1501. Also known as the Cappella Bella because of its colourful paintings, the space served until 1874 as a sacrament chapel.
Nothing is known about the circumstances of the chapel’s painting or Pinturicchio’s contract with the donor. Presumably the painter completed his work in the chapel in October 1501. The decoration consists of three large scenes on the three walls of the chapel, as well as four enthroned sibyls on the vaulting. The three scenes are the Annunciation on the left wall, Jesus among the Doctors on the right wall, and the Adoration of the Shepherds on the back wall.
Xavier Samuel in Anonymous.
That Hair. And Damn he’s naturally sexy!
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//Ben Whishaw as Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He was for many years an official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He was a founder of modern political science, and more specifically political ethics. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is renowned in the Italian language. He was Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. He wrote his masterpiece, The Prince, after the Medici had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility in Florence.
