#counter-reformation

[my-sacred-art-2]

Monica Bellucci (Italian, born September 20, 1964).

Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1627. Domenico Passignano (Italian, Florence, 1559 - 1638).

Minneapolis Institute of Art.

[racefortheironthrone]

Would even the most liberal of liberal Catholics have opposed Henry VIII making himself head of the church? Conservative or liberal, seems kind of baseline for anybody of that era who thought of themselves as Catholics?

Yes, although it very much came down to a question of wording and framing. As I've noted, one could be a Catholic and also a Gallician or Conciliarist; plenty of perfectly pious Catholic monarchs had argued that their authority was equal to or superior to that of the Pope, at least when it came to matters of governance and law rather than matters of doctrine or theology.

[absalomabsalom]

Counter-reformation as longue durée brake on science

At the time, a substantial drop, but created institutional structures that deactivated periodically to create a persistent effect. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

[prontaentrega]

the vaticans multicultural anime girls are wearing the racism rosary 💀

[shamballalin]

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[canisalbus]

do u have a specific year in mind or is it just general 16th century vibes

Very late 16th century. I'm reluctant to assign them specific years because I prefer to have just a little bit of wiggle room, I'd go crazy if I had to map out their timeline to follow real life historical details to a T (it's not impossible to do that by any means, I'm just not strong enough weh). For example, I tend to use a lot of early to mid 1500's references for Vasco's wardrobe, by the end of the century fashion had already started to take somewhat darker and more rigid direction and I like to keep Vasco's attires colorful, voluminous and eyecatching. Mostly to highlight their visual contrast to Machete's angular and constricted silhouettes and predominantly black palette.

I keep calling them late Renaissance dogs but in truth they're closer to early Baroque. At the moment I'd say they were probably born in the 1570's, Vasco is a couple years older than Machete but in the grand picture they're practically the same age. In the bad ending Machete dies in his early/mid 40's, that would mean a little after the turn of the century. Vasco lives to his 70's so he'd still be around in... 1640, right? But again, I don't like giving them fixed dates, I'm just thinking out loud. Might go back and retcon this in the future if I change my mind in a way or another.

[medievalistsnet]

[royalthorned]

Counter reformation priest Evan and heretic, perverse Barty AU

Barty is a nepo baby Italian with family connections to the Blacks (imagine sforza-esque power) on trial for sodomy (he was at a hippy-art orgy, he poses for cheap scum painters). So the church brings in their most "humane" priest to investigate and question him. Father Rosier.

And Evan is this village freak, born a twin with blank eyes and lopsided shoulders, who snuck into the forrest with Pandora and came back splattered in blood. And he is unnervingly pious, he gives every stray who comes to his monastery medical treatment and he does so with a blank face. He always volunteers to handle the dead bodies.

And Barty is tied up in some catholic rural church and Evan walks in, fully decked out in the decadence of counter reformation catholic uniforms. White billowing robes that fall over his hands because he's undernourished and frail. And Evan has deep set eye bags, slanted hips, a malnourished heart shape face with creamy skin and bright pink lips and Barty he loses it. He's flirting and giggling, he's biting his lip and making ridiculously suggestive faces (imagine carravagio's early paintings) He's slipping his linen shirt off his shoulders. And Evan is just so unmoved by the whole scene outwardly.

The torture method that Evan is ecstatic to try is sticking a wooden pole up someone's .... So Evan sets it up, all rigid and un-emotive. Barty sucks on it and looks up at Evan with the biggest, most pitiful sex eyes, this obviously leads to perverted, power imbalanced sex.

Cut to Barty being a free innocent man and living with Evan in his hometown of rural France in some undeveloped catholic parish where all the locals see Evan, the deformed, amoral, religious twin and a deranged, perverted Italian frolicking around and dissecting animals.

And the live happily ever after the end :)

this is a copy paste of my deranged rambling to Lune, thank you for listening to me bb <3 @sommerregenjuniluft

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Reformation and Counter-Reformation (2023), paper collage, 22 x 23.3 cm.

[gabrielisdead]

I really miss the happy birthday grimace trend because it combined two favourites of mine, the color purple and amateur horror. why are we not having fun anymore, is it illegal to spill your sickeningly sweet beverage on yourself to imitate a crime scene. do you remember when we used to play with matches and bury little things in the backyard. those were the good times

[rahabs]

The Tudors ran so Wulf Hall could shuffle awkwardly around reiterating the same tired old Tudor stereotypes while claiming to be something new.

[blinkbolt]

First Reformed (2017)

The Card Counter (2021)

Master Gardener (2023)

Directed by Paul Schrader

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

I’m sorry but the best Jon Snow AUs are those where he is some sort of civil servant. I always see people headcannon him as ROTC/soldier or cop but I think they kind of miss the mark. GRRM has steadily been moving away from the traditional warrior archetype with Jon and more into the counts-pebbles ruler type. So the cannon compliant AUs are the ones where he ends up as some sort of government official. Maybe he could be a city hall manager or an ombudsman. He could be a state representative or maybe even a senator. Let me remind people that he’s the only elected leader in the series. AU!Jon Snow would totally be the extremely competent but also extremely depressed congressional representative from like, idk, Alaska.

[femmefruitgems]

about to turn on a video tour of st. peter’s basilica and listen to divine feminine while i smoke sooooo much weed

[canisalbus]

What do you think would have happened if (somehow, idk how but somehow) Machete rose to the rank of pope?

To be perfectly honest? I think most realistically he would've ruled maybe six months at best and then keeled over from stress and exhaustion.