#early Baroque

[mybeautifulpoland]

Krzyżtopór Castle, Holy Cross Region, Poland by Paweł Konieczny

[maertyrer]

attributed to Giovanni Battista Paggi The Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Pen and brown ink on paper, 35.2 x 24.5 cm, 16th or 17th century

[lesser-known-composers]

Giovanni Rovetta (1596-1668) - Messa e salmi concertati, Op. 4: Dixit secondo ·

Cantus Cölln · Konrad Junghänel

[geritsel]

Jacques Callot - various horse studies

[somethingwithmoles]

Hendrick ter Brugghen, St Sebastian Tended by Irene and her Maid, 1625, oil on canvas, 149 x 119.4 cm, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio

Source: Wikimedia Commons

[gasparodasalo]

Marco Uccellini (? - 1680) - Sinfonia for Violin and Basso continuo in a-minor, Op. 9 No. 1. Performed by Lucy van Dael, violin, Bob van Asperen, organ, and Toyohiko Satoh, liuto-attiorbato, on period instruments.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Simon Vouet (1590-1649) "Woman Playing a Guitar" (c. 1618) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

[porrigens]

do you look like the devil, Brian?

[columboscreens]

[urlgray]

[canisalbus]

Would Machete and Vasco have any interest in learning a musical instrument? If so, what would they play? ( cannon or original)

I have been thinking about re-learning playing piano again, and it struck me that piano seems to be a instrument Machete could enjoy playing if he had the chance.

Do I get to pick any instruments I want for them? Even kind of unlikely weirdo ones?

Machete doesn't play anything in original canon or modern au, but if he did, I think the only truly correct choice would be pipe organ.

16th century Vasco can play lute a little bit! It's not something he's very enthusiastic about but it was part of his education. Maybe he'd be more into it in the modern times.

Or, alternatively, hurdy-gurdy, which has somewhat of a darker sound to it. I just think he'd look smashing cranking that big ol' thing.

[ar-mage-ddon]

my favorite part of the beta was how clueless player looked at everything

[vintage-ukraine]

The Hours of Christ's Suffering by Unknown Artist, painted in the early XVIIIth century in Korsun, Cherkasy Region

[lesser-known-composers]

William Brade (1560-1630) - Paduana and Galliard a 6 in G Minor (3) ·

Weser-Renaissance Bremen · Manfred Cordes

[moongothic]

Kinda started rereading Dressrosa and... Although I always chalked up the similarities between Crocodile's plan to take over Alabasta and how Doflamingo took over Dressrosa as nothing but Oda reusing similar plot elements but in a slightly different way (just to show us what could've become of Alabasta had Croc gotten away with his schemes, what Luffy helped prevent from happening to begin with)...

Robin's reaction to hearing the story of Dressrosa and HOW Doflamingo took over the country, that simple little "...!!", actually does kind of speak volumes

Like if you wanted canonical evidence to Crocodile having been "inspired" by Doflamingo, then yeah, Robin would be The Person who would pick up on that, she'd be the person who'd be like "hey, that story sounds awfully familiar to what Crocodile did", since he was her boss

Do want to note that, timeline-wise, Doflamingo only took over Dressrosa 10 years ago, where as Crocodile had been Scheming and establishing his position as the Hero of Alabasta for 16 years. Like Croc's intent to obtain Pluton and create his military nation utopia absolutely pre-dates Doffy's takeover, so that wasn't and can't have been inspired by Doflamingo at all. It's more just the plan and method Crocodile ended up going with (framing the king (through a bloodbath) and putting the country in a position without a ruler where he could just yoink it for himself with ease) where the similarity becomes more obvious. But it is also kind of where it ends. Doflamingo wanted Dressrosa because he felt like he was entitled to the island (as his family had been its original rulers and he was a Tenryuubito), and was using the island for his own gains (Smile manufacturing etc, for his dealings with Kaidou), all while having a great distain and hatred of the world and how he had been "wronged" (=Tenryuubito rights revoked). Meanwhile... yeah, Crocodile wanted to create a "utopia", only targetting Alabasta because he believed Pluton was there and because Pluton would be needed for his ideal military nation. That minor difference and Crocodile's clear and great distain and hatred of Doflamingo combined...

Yeah, I dunno, this is just interesting to me. God I need Robin and Crocodile to have a lil reunion chat

[somethingwithmoles]

Bartolomeo Schedoni, The Deposition, 1613, oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Source: Wikimedia Commons