#my other favorite brother-father dynamic is Ascanio and Ludovico. I think those two are more claustrophobic than these guys | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sforzesco · 6 months ago

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Valentinian & Valens

I’m mostly playing off of Subleyras‘ paintings featuring Valens and Theodosius for my own interpretations. part of me wants to put them through the forced twin-ification blender, since they already have the brother-father-maker dynamic down. what’s one more increasingly claustrophobic association in the name of themes and narratives!

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#celebrated turning 29 the other day by drawing my man and his brother and combined they’re my url w/ saturated colors #my other favorite brother-father dynamic is Ascanio and Ludovico. I think those two are more claustrophobic than these guys #if I’m being honest. but I also read Brotherly Love and I’m like. yeah okay so ALL imperial families are insular to the point of #unavoidable textual weirdness. you’ll die and your absence will create terrible situations etc. ascension. wedding. funeral.#late Roman Empire tag #drawing tag

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