#History In Jewels

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Diamond Necklace Linked to Marie Antoinette Scandal Sells for $4.8 Million!

A necklace fit for a queen, or should we say a scandal? A diamond necklace has a notorious connection to one of the most infamous royal scandals in history. It just sold for a whopping $4.8 million. Yep, you read that right—$4.8 MILLION! That’s a lot of zeros, and not just for a shiny piece of jewelry. Let’s rewind to the late 1700s, shall we? Picture this: France, the 1780s. The country’s in…

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Details: her first jewels, 1891, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

[saintstars]

Melkor seducing bothering Fëanáro

[thesixthduke]

Crown of Margaret of York, 1468.

[escapismsworld]

The Dunstable Swan Jewel is a gold and enamel brooch in the form of a swan made in England or France about the year 1400. Excavated in 1965 in Dunstable Friary, Bedfordshire, it is presumed to have be an intended livery badge given by an important figure to his supporters.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Run The Jewels released their second album Run The Jewels 2 October 24, 2014

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[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

Dryads are narnia's history holders. Think about it, trees live for so long, it makes so much sense that the dryads would have a rich oral history that they would pass down among themselves, but also share with the rest of the narnians.

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Jewels – Thomas Edwin Mostyn // Prayer Factory – Florence + the Machine

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Jewel Box, St. Louis

[frobby]

Seigi nakata is so funny cuz he genuinely has the most normal guy rizz where somehow his only notable deeds being stopping hooligans and making pretty good pudding landed him the most beautiful man of the century

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Oh wow I actually finished an animation for once- continuation of The Room Where It Happens. :p

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Mary Tudor

Artist: Hans Eworth (Flemish, c. 1520–1574)

Date: 1550's

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London

Mary of Tudor

This painting does not bear a date, but the style of the sitter’s clothes suggests that it was made in or around 1553. The woman's face is so close to other known portraits of Mary Tudor by Hans Eworth, such as that, left, from the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London, that an identification with the recently crowned queen is more than reasonable. This sitter is perhaps younger than one might have expected Mary to have looked in 1553, but otherwise her features and her slight physique accord with contemporary written descriptions of the queen.

Mary may not have shared the physical bulk of her father Henry VIII, or subscribed to his brand of Reformed Christanity, but she did inherit his love of personal adornment and display. As one foreign ambassador wrote,

She makes great use of Jewels… and although she has plenty of them… yet were she better supplied with money than she is, she would doubtless buy many more…

There is a sombre, rather than ostentatious tone to this painting, and yet Mary is richly attired, and her jewels, if discreet, are nonetheless magnificent. Just below the black and gold cross at her neck, a large brooch stands out against the black satin of her bodice. A scene depicted upon it in relief can just be discerned. It shows the Old Testament Queen Esther interceding with her husband, the pagan King Ahasuerus, on behalf of her fellow Jews. Christians interpreted this Old Testament royal heroine as a prefiguration of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven. The relevance of the story to the recently crowned Queen Mary of England is clear.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Run The Jewels released their self-titled debut albumJune 26, 2013

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The fascinating story of the most infamous necklace in British portraiture

B is for Boleyn. The now iconic single-initial lavaliere, immortalised in Anne Boleyn’s portrait as Queen consort to King Henry VIII, has become synonymous with the scandalous royal and her untimely end.

Royal sitters of imperial portraits took great pains to curate the ensemble in which they were to be immortalised. Ergo, by posing in an overt symbol of her identity as a Boleyn - in her official portrait as a Tudor Queen no less - Anne deliberately breaks with the conventional representations of a deferential British consort.

The acquisition of this provocative piece of jewellery hints at the audacious influence the chief mistress of the French King – Françoise de Foix, Countess of Châteaubriant – likely had on the future Queen of England. During her transformation at the French court, Anne acted alongside Françoise as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Claude of France.

If legend is to be believed, then the ‘other Boleyn girl’ – Mary Boleyn, Anne’s sister and former mistress to Henry VIII – was given the necklace during her last visit with the disgraced Queen in the Tower of London and safeguarded it for her niece, the future Queen Elizabeth I 

According to this persistent lore, three of the four hanging pearls on the Imperial State Crown – thought to have been added by Elizabeth I – are believed to be those from her mother’s famed necklace.

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*lovingly tackles Aine*

Read my Yandere! Pierro longfics first ♪( ´▽｀)

Last week, my beloved mutual @ainescribe surprised me with Savior! Darling fan art and AHAI9232@2-!/! CRYING SCREAMING I WANT TO LOOK AT THIS ART AND WORSHIP YOUR VERSION OF SAVIOR THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING ME WITH YOUR ART—

*clears throat* Anyway, now that I finally have the time to properly sit down and comment on the fan art, I’ll do just that. Feedback will be in the tags and it will be unhinged. Once again, thank you so much to Aine for drawing this <3