#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)

[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

[thomascromwelll]

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

[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]

Woollen caps were standard wear in Tudor England, so it's unsurprising that three examples were found on the wreck of the Mary Rose, all knitted in stocking stitch in 2mm twin ply wool, with a silk lining.

Looking after wool that's spent 437 years on the seabed is relatively simple; it's washed in deionised water, cleaned with a soft brush while underwater then air dried between cotton towels and blotting paper.

[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)

[juanatrastamara]

joely richardson as catherine parr in the tudors

[thomascromwelll]

What's up with Tudor era Women? ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

Margaret Beaufort — The White Princess Mary Tudor (shhh, I know) — The Tudors Catherine Parr — Firebrand