#Sixteenth Century

[pintoras]

Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, ca. 1532-1625): Portrait of a noblewoman, possibly Aloisia de Luna Moncada, bust-length, wearing a black embroidered dress (via Dorotheum)

[martyr-eater]

Man of Sorrows, ca. 1500–1525.

[wronghands1]

[dark-longings]

From a 1591 English edition of Claude Paradin's Devises heroïqves (1557).

[feste-de-jester]

🃏 ⤷ Twelfth Night Characters, Lines and Scene Numbers

Thought this table was pretty cool, so I copied it up onto Google Sheets to post here! :)

(Sir Toby above everyone in BOTH his amount of lines and his amount of scenes...as he should be though to be fair, what a cool guy)

(also I linked the source I got it from in the ID! ✨)

[muspeccoll]

New in the Digital Library: this grant for Lyme Regis was formally issued on 14 June, 1554 and is signed "Marye the quene."

A grant of a weekly Friday market and two annual fairs to Lyme Regis. Queen Mary gives a warrant to an unidentified official to draw up the grant for the town of ’Kings Lyme’ [Lyme Regis] of a weekly Friday market and two annual three-day fairs in February and September: the grants to include all stallage, piccage [a fee for breaking ground at a fair], tollage and customs with the court of piepowder [a special tribunal for actions during the market or fair], as well as the right of correcting weights and measures; those attending the fairs may not be ’suyd arrested or molested in any suyte ... except it be for acc[i]ons and suyts onely rysyng... w[i]t[h]in the seid Fayers’. ’Where at the humble suyte and peticion of the Burgesses of our Towne of Kings Lyme in our Countie of Dorsett, we are right welle contented and pleaced ... to give and graunte unto the Burgesses of our seid Towne and to their Successours forev[er] one m[ar]kett to be kepte weekely w[ith]in our seid Towne on the Friday forev[er], And also t[w]o Fayres yerely there to be holden and kept, that is to say thone Fayre to begynne the firste day of February yerely forev[er], And there to conynue three dayes then next folowyng, And thother Fayre to begynne the xx [20th] day of September yerely and there to continue for three days then next folowyng’.

(via Grant of weekly market and two annual fairs... | MU Digital Library, University of Missouri)

[the-busy-ghost]

"Quhat is ane king? Nocht bot ane officiar, To caus his leiges live in equitie, And under God to be ane punischer Of trespassours against his Majestie: Bot quhen the king dois live in tyrannie, Breakand justice for feare or affectioun, Then is his realme in weir and povertie, With schamefull slauchter but correctioun. I am ane judge, richt potent and seveir, Cum to do justice mony thowsand myle."

Divine Correction in "Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis", by Sir David Lindsay of the Mount

[higherthanhell]

My lesbian great aunt showed me what immediately became one of my favorite films ever and a comfort show.

Dangerous Beauty, released in 1998 is based on a real person- Veronica Franco, a sixteenth century courtesan in Venice.

She is a new icon of mine. I would pray to this woman

Please watch it it's incredible

[eternaleve]

I got inspired by the recently released images from Firebrand to make a whole video about the French Hood! Iconic, classic, and oh so difficult for costume designers to get right.

[hist0ryofart]

Lucretia, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1627.

According to author Tito Livio, Lucretia, wife of Roman politician Collatino, was violated by Sesto Tarquinio, son of the last king of Rome. Devastated from the brutal encounter, she then wrote to her father and husband to rapidly reach her, and when they came she stabbed herself with a dagger. To avenge her, Collatino and Lucio Giunio Bruto conducted an insurrection that led to the end of the kingdom of the Tarquini family and the start of the res publica romana.

[fiftysevenacademics]

"Got milk?"

[pintoras]

Barbara Longhi (Italian, 1552-1638): Saint Justina of Padua (via Dorotheum)

[martyr-eater]

Central panel from a triptych depicting the Mass of Saint Gregory, Netherlands, ca. 1500.

[weissengel]

[andiatas]

Arthurian symbolism utilized by King Henry VIII in Habsburg diplomacy was a tribute to his esteemed mythic forefather, King Arthur, who commanded great respect from countless individuals, not least his imperial cousins. This article proposes that the King Arthur pageant at the 1522 London entry of Charles V was part of Henry’s broader use of Arthuriana in Habsburg political theatre, inspired by Maximilian I’s pseudo-ancestry. This article provides a new insight into Henry’s attempts to engage in the power politics of early sixteenth-century Europe and the use of British history in forging connections with his political rival.

[feste-de-jester]

🃏 ⤷ "Look like th' innocent / flower, / But be the serpent under 't." [Macbeth 1.5.76-78]