#era: 16th century

[about-suffering]

Bathers at San Niccolò, 1600 Domenico Passignano [Domenico Cresti] (1559-1638)

[melpomeneprose]

send me  ‘🃏 !’  and i’ll write you a starter using a tarot card as the inspiration

Anne Boleyn for visiting v: phoenix queen Relta?

From here. / @joyfulmagic

The Magician - Upright: power, influence, resourcefulness, intellect, and skill. Reversed: a warning to be careful and 'mind where you step or step on.'

Admittedly Lady Anne B.oleyn hadn't been in England long, still, somehow she got H.enry the E.ighth's attention. Almost without saying a word. It would be tedious if it didn't benefit her and her family. She's made her way to court with her sister, Mary. Hoping at least one B.oleyn girl would have some staying power. Silently, Anne thinks, 'Is it not enough? The man is married, I bear Catherine of Aragon no ill will, I am merely a reformed P.rotestant, and he does have my sister and several others already.' but Anne doesn't voice such words, it would only get her in more trouble with her father.

She was new at court, as new as one educated keenly at French Court could be and already Catalina saw her as a challenge. Was her summons so much to bear? Well, she's determined to make this difficult. She will be no mistress.

Anne had almost gotten lost in her train of thought when I bright haired woman approached, she seemed respectable enough, though really -- respectability be damned. At French court she was taught to be memorable.

"Bonsoir, Madam, I am Lady Anne B.oleyn, at your service, a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

[fashionsfromhistory]

Jacket

1590-1630

Great Britain

This simple unlined jacket represents an informal style of clothing worn by women in the early 17th century. Unlike more fitted waistcoats, this loose, unshaped jacket may have been worn during pregnancy. A repeating pattern of curving scrolls covers the linen from which spring sweet peas, oak leaves, acorns, columbine, lilies, pansies, borage, hawthorn, strawberries and honeysuckle embroidered in coloured silks, silver and silver-gilt threads. The embroidery stitches include chain, stem, satin, dot and double-plait stitch, as well as knots and couching of the metal threads. Sleeves and sides are embroidered together with an insertion stitch in two shades of green instead of a conventionally sewn seam. Although exquisitely worked, this jacket is crudely cut from a single layer of linen, indicating the work of a seamstress or embroiderer, someone without a tailor's training. It has no cuffs, collar or lining, and the sleeves are cut in one piece. The jacket was later altered to fit a thinner person. The sleeves were taken off, the armholes re-shaped, the sides cut down, and the sleeves set in again.

The Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession number: 919-1873)

[thomascromwelll]

Lilit Lesser as Lady Mary Tudor Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light | Episode one 'Wreckage'

[cy-lindric]

La Reine Margot - Charles IX, Henri de Navarre, and Marguerite de Valois

I.III - Un roi poète

I.XXXI - La Chasse à Courre

II.IV - La Nuit des Rois

[pencake07]

Sooo I watched the spider-verse movie and because I'm me I had to draw a historically inspired spiderperson :)

[elephantlovemedleys]

Elizabeth + Robert Dudley's bear and ragged staff emblem chain ELIZABETH (1998) dir. SHEKHAR KAPUR

[wolfhalledits]

Thomas Cromwell Introduction Scene.

WOLF HALL | S01E01 'Three Card Trick'

+bonus:

[the-tvdors]

"Why should that surprise you, Henry? You have not always been kind to her. I have wept so often to see her alone, abandoned by her father."

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS and MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY as HENRY VIII and KATHERINE OF ARAGON The Tudors | 'Death of a Monarchy' — S03E10

[beatrack92]

Tudor Love 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 🏳️‍🌈

[ltwilliammowett]

Canister shots from the Mary Rose

These wooden containers, found packed with flint, are canister shot, which would be loaded into the ships guns and fired, fragmenting and sending sharp shrapnel towards the enemy, destroying rigging and seriously injuring personnel.

These represent the three types of canister shot recovered from the Mary Rose and were made before 1545:

Cylindrical lantern shot: Manufactured in a similar fashion to lanterns, panels mounted to discs at either end.

Cylindrical canister: a single piece of wood cut in half lengthways and hollowed out to provide a central container, led together with string.

Conical lantern shot: Tapering staves are bound together to form a cone. A separate top is pegged to the ends of the staves.

In the course of the 18th century, these shots developed into the canister shots and the grapeshots

Artillery shot-canister for a 12-pounder cannon from the US Civil War era

Canister shots now have a metal canister and are filled with round lead or iron balls that are packed with sawdust to give the mass more strength and cohesion and to prevent the balls from crowding each other when fired.

Stool of Grapeshot, 1800-24

A grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller-caliber round shots packed tightly in a canvas bag and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. When assembled, the shot resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name.

[about-suffering]

Hunters in the Snow (Winter) [Jagers in de Sneeuw], 1565 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569)

[melpomeneprose]

“you clearly needed help.”

henry tudor, duke of cornwall for anne of cleves

@officerwaltons

Anna thought for a moment. Were she permitted a policy of truth, as her Christianity so often demanded. She’d question why she was here. What with Henry VIII’s four children. Two sons. Two daughters. Elizabeth, Mary, Edward and Henry Tudor. All of whom had taken her as a stepmother so well. She only prayed the King’s firstborn legitimate son didn’t know that she was soon to be but a ‘beloved sister’ to his majesty, Henry VIII.

Still, she had indeed needed help. It’d be wrong to deny as much. She knew, of course, why she was here at all. At least initially. She was to bare the King more sons. Secure the Tudor line. After all, the War of the Roses had happened a mere fifty years before. All because the English royals couldn’t act accordingly and the line of succession was unclear. That and some unlucky children died young. It was a fact of life. Anna had survived to 24. But her mother had lost at least two babies before her and Amelia, and her brother, the now Duke of Cleves.

“I… thank you, my Lord,” Anna managed awkwardly.

She had no interest in baring sons and the acts it required and she much preferred the soft touch of women. An aunt perhaps, but not a mother. A flirt, in words, but not a lady of Greensleeves.

“Should you and your siblings need anything, I am here, you know. I don’t intend to leave England. Despite the ‘divorce’, I should know. I won’t be denied my dues and payment. I love your father, as a sister protects her brother. But as marriages go. Declare me but a well-to-do titled spinster! I fancy myself a Pallas Athena, or better still, Artemis of the hunt!”

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)

[thomascromwelll]

Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves in The Tudors (2007-2010) | Season three, Episode seven

[juanatrastamara]

joely richardson as catherine parr in the tudors