#Italian Renaissance style

[rabbitcruiser]

Carnegie Hall reopened after a $50 million facelifting on December 15, 1986.

[raisunii]

Sweet New Style - A Web Weave

[sforzesco]

some pals

martelli’s design was too close to francesco de’ pazzi’s, so I decided to Fix That and find inner peace about it

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[thehaberdasheress]

Shop the Look: 16th Century Hairnet and Hat

For this look, I've made a hairnet of gold cord and ribbon over bronze organza ($40 CAD) decorated with amber glass beads and faux pearls, and a handstitched black velvet hat ($30) to perch jauntily on top.

(You'll have to find an eyepatch and blue feather yourself, though)

[mothmiso]

Osborne House (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by lanavelkov

[marshmallsy]

man you know the obsession is getting bad when you start creating tevinter/antiva/nevarra/etc. fashion inspo boards so you have good references to design insane outfits for fanart purposes

[mypepemateossus]

[pittoresko]

"Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Novice of San Secondo" by Jacometto Veneziano, Italian painter of the 15th century.

Jacometto Veneziano was an Italian early Renaissance painter and illuminator, active between 1472 and 1497.

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ITALIANO: "Ritratto di una novizia" (1490) di Jacometto Veneziano, pittore italiano del primo Rinascimento, attivo tra il 1472 e il 1497.

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• Michelangelo’s « Creation of Adam » (hands detail) •

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[dlyarchitecture]

[vonspe]

drawin some outfits for Rook, i wanted to try and combine the in game crow style with renaissance italian fashion

[sforzesco]

THE BROTHERS SFORZA

augh. there sure is a lot going on between them. tfw you know your older brother is wary of you so you have to navigate that fine line of proving you're useful, but not dangerously so. tfw your younger brother has the potential to be a knife in your back, but he's your brother. don't think too hard about what happened with the galeazzo. unfortunately, you're both visconti as well as sforza, and the visconti were prone to conspiracy. fucking RIP.

this definitely won't be upsetting years down the line when ascanio is near death and ludovico will be desperate to figure out how to bring his brother's body back to milan so ascanio can be interred in the same place as ludovico's recently deceased wife, beatrice d'este, and where ludovico himself has been haunting in a perpetual state of grief.

& the background of the first panel are public domain scans of two cards out of the visconti-sforza tarot deck.

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

[literaryvein-reblogs]

More European Renaissance Art Vocabulary

for your next poem/story

Halo - The gold circle or disk placed behind the heads of Christ and saints, a symbol of their sanctity or the light of God.

Hatching - The drawing or engraving of fine parallel lines to show shading. When the lines intersect each other, it is called cross-hatching.

Horizon Line - The line where the sky and earth appear to meet. The horizon line is drawn across the picture at the artist’s eye level.

Hue - A particular variety of a color, shade, or tint.

Lunette - A semicircular shape.

Magus - A member of the ancient Persian priestly caste, skilled in Eastern magic and astrology. In the New Testament, the Magi are the three wise men who came from the East to pay homage to the newborn Christ Child.

Majolica - Tin-glazed earthenware.

Palazzo - An Italian word used to describe a large building. It may be a mansion or palace, or an official government building like a town hall, court, or embassy.

Passion, or The Passion of Christ - The events surrounding the Crucifixion of Christ; a popular subject for religious drama, painting, and sculpture.

Perspective - A technique that artists use to represent the three dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface, such as a piece of paper, canvas, or wood panel. Using perspective, an artist can create the illusion of depth or space and show the proper proportion between objects. Without perspective, a painting or drawing will appear flat.

Pictorial Space - The illusion of three-dimensional space created on a two-dimensional surface.

Predella - An Italian word for the series of small paintings that form the lower section of large altarpieces. It usually has narrative scenes from the lives of the saints who are represented on the main and side panels of the altarpiece.

Putto - From the Latin word meaning “male child.” In 15th- and 16th century poetry and painting, putti are depicted with wings and connected with the god of love, Eros, also known as Cupid.

Red - In Christian paintings, a symbol of the blood of Christ or the Passion.

Relief - A raised surface; for example, sculpture that is carved or modeled and which projects from a background.

Star - In Christian paintings, a symbol of divine guidance or favor. The Star of the East guided the three Magi to Bethlehem.

Triumph - An ancient Roman tradition honoring the return of a victorious general, who paraded his soldiers, prisoners, and spoils through the city streets.

Tromp L’oeil - French for “fool the eye”; a style of painting intended to trick the viewer into believing that the minutely observed objects shown are part of the viewer’s three-dimensional world.

Vanishing Point - The point where parallel lines appear to meet on the horizon line.

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Part 1

[museenkuss]

“How I transformed my body in 90 days” type video but I’m becoming a Renaissance Woman. Vlog footage of me reading the classics for hours on end, writing vocabulary lists, drawing in my sketch book to epic music. On day 15 I talk about how I’m slowly adjusting to my elaborate home cooked meals and how I struggle with the genealogy of the Borgias. There are montages of me educating myself on history, astrology, astronomy and dressing well, I take horseback riding lessons and go to museums. Erasmus, Machiavelli and Lucretius are stacked on my bedside table.

There’s a segment where I say “it’s day 53 and I’m really struggling… I can’t even write a sonnet. I don’t see any improvement in myself. Is this even worth it?!” The stakes are rising. I’m shown ripping up pages of rhymes in calligraphy. I swear as I rush around the kitchen, trying to prepare my oysters. I sit at my desk and sigh, head in hands, my desk covered in stacks of notes, huge volumes on art history and printed out articles. The dramatic moment comes when I for the nth time try to walk and gesture with sprezzatura while balancing books on my head for better posture. I fall. The books topple to the floor. I’ve reached rock bottom.

Black screen. Voice over: “It was really hard. I felt like Dante, in the dark forest, having lost my way. And then, I realised what I needed: I had to go on a grand tour.”

Music swells again, there’s a montage of me packing and travelling in busses and trains. Landscape rushes past. I read Goethe’s Italienische Reise on the journey. Finally, there are snippets of me in Munich, in Vienna. I take a selfie in front of Parmigianino’s self portrait in a convex mirror, showing off my own elegantly contorted hand. I’m in Florence, breathing heavily with excitement as I walk along the outside walls of the Galleria degli Uffizi. “Oh my god, there he is—“ I film the Petrarch statue, the phone visibly shaking. “I can’t believe I get to meet him…” I whisper with awe. Cut. I’m blowing a kiss at the right Grace in Botticelli’s Spring (I have a crush on her). I’m in the Loggia di Psiche in Rome, I’m kneeling on a bridge in Venice to touch it, “Tintoretto walked on these very stones..”, I’m filming the ceiling of the Camera Degli Sposi in Mantua. I’m in the streets of Grasse showing off a bottle of Fragonard perfume I bought, I’m teary eyed in front of the Concerto Campestre in the Louvre. Cut.

I’m back home. “It’s now day…79. Those were the most unrealistic two weeks of my life. And the most expensive. But now I’m back on track. I feel like I can really do this.” With newfound vigour I get back to my battered Reclam German/Latin edition of Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Day 81, 85, 89. Emotional/hopeful music. I show a Shakespeare sonnet written in beautiful calligraphy. I’m in the museum sketching the composition of an annunciation and taking notes on a Venus by Cranach. I practice a speech I’ve written following Cicero’s rules on rhetoric. I’m back on horseback. I present a cake of some sort.

DAY 90. I’m at my desk. “Wow, what a journey. Now let’s see the transformation I underwent in those 90 days.” I show side by side footage of me from day 1 and day 90. I look the same, except day 90 me is wearing all black, Castiglione style, and has better posture. Back to the desk. “I changed so much. I learned so much about myself and my limits. I’m still not fluent in Latin or Italian. But what I learned is that beauty is everywhere, especially in the struggle, and it’s worth cherishing. And now, I’m back and stronger and more curious than ever. If you haven’t followed me on tumblr @Museenkuss at this point, what are you doing? Click the follow button and give this post a like because NOW, the fun really begins. A renaissance woman never stops learning.” From under the desk, I grab two books and put them on my desk. The Tale of Genji and Sei Shōnagon’s pillow book. “It’s time to expand my horizon.” Black screen.

[makingqueerhistory]

Selected Works from Donatello

Note: The photos of these works are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license rather than Public Domain

Donatello is perhaps one of the most well-known Italian sculptors, but little is certain about his private life. 

Like many notable Renaissance artists including De Vinci and Michelangelo, Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was financially supported by the Medici family. Donatello neither married nor had any known children, but he still enjoyed patronage from the Medici family even in his old age. While he modeled his work after ancient Greek and Roman works, his style is now emblematic of the Early Renaissance style of sculpture. While his works are numerous and impressive, David is by far his most well-known today (not to be confused with Michelangelo's David).

It's unfair to say Donatello's sexuality did not impact his work — who we are will always often the work we create whether it is consciously or not — but it's difficult to say exactly how. By some accounts, Donatello's sexuality was well-known in Florence. Other accounts, particularly those from straight historians, are more vague. Unfortunately, the intentional closeting of queer people by straight historians is a common problem we've discussed before. Neither Donatello nor his fellow artists, supporters, or even detractors spoke of his sexuality explicitly. There are also no recorded charges for sodomy against Donatello, while other queer artists were not as fortunate. 

All that being said, that does not mean there is no evidence of Donatello's sexuality. He was known to hire handsome assistants, often choosing them for their beauty rather than artistic talents. It is possible his sexuality was known and accepted because of his popularity, talent, and support from the Medici family. And, of course, there are countless queer people throughout history for whom we will never find records or stories. 

Donatello

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