#high renaissance style

[artemlegere]

The Damsel and Orlando

Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820)

Date: c. 1793

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

The Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto’s epic "Orlando furioso" (1516) enjoyed revived popularity in the eighteenth century. In this melodramatic scene, the costumes, the physical types, and, especially, the poses are reminiscent of the style of the Italian High Renaissance, which West greatly admired. The hero, Orlando, is shown as he learns that he has lost his place in the affections of Angelica, who now loves someone else and has dispensed with a jeweled bracelet Orlando had given her. The painter concentrated all the work’s tension in the theatrical pose of Orlando, who, in the wildness of his grief, loses his mind.

[fynori]

redraw of baby's first bsd art. original's under the cut!

this bad boy's from january 26, 2023. fun times. it was only a year ago but i still want to implode within myself whenever i look at it for too long LMAO

[graveyardfullofstars]

[miusejournal]

BEYONCÉ x BALMAIN - RENAISSANCE COUTURE

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[theworldisyonces]

Renaissance World tour: Show 8 Night 1, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - London, England (5/29/23). Beyoncé singing “River Deep Mountain High” as a tribute to Tina Turner.

[pirateswhore]

every day I come online and see someone tag a 19th c painting with 'classical art' and it takes every ounce of will power not to turn into a snob about it

[desertdragon]

[kristinanw]

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[carsonmell]

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[bitidragon]

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[duckandpenguin]

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[petitbeast]

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[miusejournal]

Beyoncé for The Face Magazine, October Issue (2003)

[homunculus-argument]

A fantasy setting that's otherwise the exact regular late medieval/renaissance era -style world, except it's explicitly mentioned that zippers are a thing. Their presence has no relevance to the plot, and is only explained in passing: The elves invented them, and are the only ones with a skill to manufacture them. They do not use zippers for anything themselves - they find the mechanism inelegant and repulsive - but the demand for these tools is high enough among the other races that they are reluctantly willing to produce them exclusively for trade. None of this is brought up, or elaborated on, ever again.

[zyroxan]

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