#isabella d'este

[cesareeborgia]

↳ Historical Ladies Name: Isabella/Isabelle

[roodllle]

Here are my two favs from the artbook, if you have any interest at all I would buy it, it's only $3 and its so nice to see the thoughts behind everything!!

bonus gremlin meddy!

[electricboogaloosstuff]

I would die for her

[sapplejack]

We need a fighting game where the fighters are historical figures from the Renaissance. I want to play as Michelangelo by spamming hammer swinging/punches at Raphael who, in turn, would be the kind of character to punish such moves at a super high rate. Cesare Borgia and Micheletto Corella would be OP to the point they get over-nerfed down the line. Caterina & Ludovico Sforza players would def be pluggers, while the toxicity of Roberto Sanseverino mains would know no bounds. Lorenzo de Medici and Isabella d'Este mains would be really chill, almost fun to play a match against, but encountered rarely due to the complexity of their characters' tech.

[raphaels-room]

Thinking about the good ol' butterfly effect. King Ferrante of Naples and Francesco Sforza agreed to a marriage between their kids (Eleanora and Sforza Maria respectively), which was later called off by Galeazzo when he became duke (Ferrante too was responsible, but he seemed incensed to break it off on his end because of Galeazzo). Eleanora went on to instead marry Ercole d'Este and they had 4 kids, the 2 eldest daughters being Isabella d'Este and Beatrice d'Este.

So essentially, if Galeazzo hadn't pushed for the cancellation of the marriage agreement, our 2 favourite bickering sisters would never have been born. Thank you Galeazzo 🙏

[tragediambulante]

Allegory of Isabella d'Este's court, Lorenzo Costa, 1500-1525

[puzzled-pegasus]

I had to artistically depict a Renaissance person for a history assignment. I picked Isabella d'Este. I think I did a pretty good job. Did you know she was a bleached blonde? Turns out women have been doing that since forever. The more you know.

For the dog breed, I looked at pictures of Sicilian Sheepdogs. Some of them have curly fur, which I thought was perfect both because of the features depicted in Isabella's portraits and to try and paint as a nod to Da Vinci's and other Renaissance artists' style of making hair look super curly. I don't know that it came through in my painting as much as I would have liked, though...

Apparently extra credit is available for extra creativity, so I wonder if I'll get points just for furrifying her XD

Here's the portraits of her I used as reference:

[andrearodriguezsblog]

Sobre los podcast

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¿Te imaginabas que habían mujeres como Isabella que entraron a ese mundo del arte desde la posición de poder? No, normalmente el papel de la mujer en la historia suele ser tan estereotipado y limitado que simplemente se asume que ellas estaban desvinculadas de la mayoría de estas actividades propias de su época y posición social, y verdaderamente es maravilloso conocer sobre mujeres en la historia (sobre todo para esta epoca) que eran tan importantes y poderosas a su manera.

¿Te habías preguntado cual era el papel de la mujer en el Renacimiento? Creo que nunca me había parado a cuestionarme verdaderamente cuál era su papel, y menos me había imaginado que podía ser tan activo. Esto probablemente se deba a que el Renacimiento fue tan importante en tantas áreas, tiene tantos artistas famosos cuya carrera se desarrolla en esta época, arquitectos, comerciantes, tanta información, que estos vestigios como el de Isabella d'Este nunca recibieron tanta atención de mi parte.

¿Qué es el arte para ti? ¿Qué valor tiene? Para mi, el arte siempre ha sido una de las formas de expresión más puras y ligadas al sentimiento y la emoción. El arte es un medio de comunicación tan profundo que puede cambiar percepciones, inspirar, generar cuestionamientos y establecer conexiones de una manera en la que las palabras siempre se quedarán cortas. Cuando el arte es percibido como algo más que solo objeto de admiración, mas bien como canal de cambio y reflector de la complejidad de los humanos y nuestros pensamientos, su valor alcanza el máximo de los niveles.

[spadoodle]

Afternoon sketch lest my fingers might crumple up.

[mistytpednaem]

god she rules actually. like. ok i don't know much about the Real Person but. i will read about her. i always do

[borgialucrezia]

"[Lucrezia Borgia] is described as having heavy blonde hair which fell past her knees, a beautiful complexion, hazel eyes which changed colour, a full, high bosom, and a natural grace which made her appear to “walk on air" — George Richard Marek, The Bed and the Throne: The Life of Isabella D'Este

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Vampire Therapist client living arrangement headcanons

Sidenote, these headcanons are for where they are at the start of the game

Dr. Drayne: This man only owns his lab and nothing else. He or maybe his lab partners/familiars brought a single cot inside for when he passes out. But other than that he has no bedroom, apartment, or any living space of his own. Just his lab.

Isabella D'este: She has a lavish apartment or house that she owns and has owned for centuries. Her coffin is practically a plush bed, she has a fancy bathroom that she uses, has multiple wardrobes or maybe even a walk in closet. She also uses these things btw, like she actively sleeps, baths regularly, unlike a couple other vamps on this list.

Edmund Kean: If I found out he actually lives in a dark alley on an abandoned mattress I wouldn't be surprised but I'll try and give him some credit.

I think he either has enough money to live in an apartment or lives in abandoned apartments. Either way his room looks like something you'd see on r/MaleLivingSpaces when it's at its worst. A mattress on the floor against the wall because he loves the secure feeling of having his back to the wall. He probably has a laptop or computer to keep up on the theater world and to obsessively look himself up on any social media website. He does have nice clothes, but unlike Isabella who I think pays someone for new clothes, I think he either has taken really good care of the clothes he's always had or steals from costume storage places.

Meddy: Her streaming room has all the latest tech: the gamer chair, sponsored stuff, neon lights everywhere, a cool PC, posters, you name it. But outside of that room, her apartment looks untouched. Nothing is disgusting per say but the kitchen, bathroom, etc have a layer of dust on them. It looks like no one lives there unless you walk into her streaming room. Maybe at one point she used the bedroom but because of the pressures of streaming now that has an abandoned look too.

[littlebatgames]

The voices of Vampire Therapist

Hi Tumblr! I'm Cyrus Nemati, creative director at Little Bat Games, where we're making Vampire Therapist. You might know me as a voice actor. I voiced Theseus, Dionysus, and Ares in Hades, so as you might imagine, voices are my thing.

When I started designing Vampire Therapist, I wanted to create characters not only had deep narrative depth, but that would be challenging and rewarding to voice. I voice protagonist Sam Walls and his mentor, Andromachos. Writing a game about therapy is really tricky, so being able to jump in revoice lines was a huge benefit for the game!

I also voice two of the therapy clients in the game, Dr. Drayne and Edmund Kean. Dr. Drayne is the kind of challenge any actor delights in, having three very distinct characterizations that have to seem natural, whereas Edmund Kean is the Shakespearean actor of his time.

As much as I'd like to save money, I couldn't voice all characters in the game, but I'm very picky about voices and needed a cast of the absolute best I could find. So I got them.

If you've played Hades 2, you've heard Sarah Grayson or Selene. Or maybe you know her from Gone Home or Tacoma? But I needed her ability to alternate between the very light and the very dark for murderous vampire content creator Meddy.

To play Isabella d'Este, a real historical figure and esteemed patron of the arts during the Renaissance, I needed someone with a sense of the theatrical and some excellent comic timing. For that, I turned to a very old friend, Kylie Clark, who comes much more from the theatre tradition that video games... which she doesn't play at all. Until Vampire Therapist!

For our fabulous goth bartender, Crimson, I needed the epitome of cool, sexy, and tantalizingly mysterious. You might know Francesca Meaux as Eurydice from Hades, but she went to some unexpected places to play Crimson!

I did say I wanted the best of the best, right? Vampire Therapist is a super low-budget indie, but if I'm going to fill a club with quirky, sexy goths, I need range, and for that, I got Matthew Mercer. Yeah, that Matthew Mercer. The Critical Role one. The one from Baldur's Gate 3. The one from all your favorite video games. How could I do less? He's playing Reinhard the sexy goth and Ciaran the goth priest in Vampire Therapist.

You can see the work we've put into every aspect of Vampire Therapist. I think you're going to find that it's unlike any game you've ever played.

It'll be out on July 18th, and you can wishlist it on Steam now!

And on GOG!

[lesb0]

one of the most interesting art history mysteries is the changing face of isabella d'este; a marquise of mantua, highly educated brilliant intellectual classical humanist, dance choreographer, musician, song composer, knew virgil by heart, super important patron of the high renaissance. all the money and power a renaissance woman could have. these are her commissions:

Literally all portraits. for all her skills and genius and court status, her highest priority was her looks. never seen or described in poems without a full face of thick lead skin bleaching foundation and sometimes with bleached blonde hair. She was constantly obsessed with being too thin, too fat, not fat enough, too thin again. known to stare at a mirror for hours.

when leonardo sketched her at age 26, they mutually rejected each other. he wouldn't condescend to her intelligence and status by painting an imaginary 13 year olds heavily made up face on her body. she wouldn't allow a painter not to "idealize" her beyond recognition.

So a huge problem for art historians now is that nobody can agree on which portraits are supposedly her, because none of the sitters appear to have the same face, hair color, or even age. None of the portraits look like her, because none of the portraits are of a real woman.

When she was 62 years old and heavily scarred from the lead makeup, she sat for this Titian:

[raphaels-room]

I just watched Wicked for the 2nd time. Now I'm thinking of Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia singing "What is this Feeling?" after they become sisters-in-law. Also, Lucrezia being the Glinda to Isabella's Elphaba with "Popular".

[neontea77]

Playing Vampire Therapist and everyone is hot in this game!! Love you Isabella d'Este!!! 💚💚💚

I think Ill make an oc just for her