#princess of the renaissance

[haveamagicalday]

Battle of the Barbies! Round 7: Historical (Sub Round 3)

This is round 7 (sub round 3) of the bracket. All other polls in can be found here.

[barbielore]

I have made no secret that I am a huge fan of the Dolls of the World collection.

Though the base collection were dolls in different national costumes, there were subcollections relating to festivals, landmarks and - what else? - princesses.

I can't find an official masterlist from Mattel on how many Princesses of the World have been released, but to be fair, I might not be looking correctly. Most sources say there were 19 but some say 21, so I am not sure if some people are mistaken or if there are two extra secret princesses that I don't know about.

Either way, I am not going to make a post sharing all 19 or 21 Princesses because I don't want to clutter your feeds quite that much, but I do just want to share a few that I find interesting.

This is Princess of the Pacific Islands. She was released in 2005. Although her branding just says "Pacific Islands", the back of the box identifies her as being from Hawaii. I am not going to pretend at all to be an expert on Hawaiian culture or traditional dress, so I will not speak to the accuracy -- but I do think it would have been nice for Mattel to describe her a little more specifically. There are famously quite a lot of "Pacific Islands" with different cultures.

Princess of the Renaissance (also from 2005) I think is beautiful. The back of the box specifies that she is from Florence. It also specifies that -- no joke -- this Barbie engages in rap battles with her friend, the court jester.

Okay, it doesn't say "rap battles". It says, and I quote, "When the princess is ready for harder games, she challenges her friend the court jester to rhyming contests. She always wins!". But I want to believe this princess canonically rap battles.

I actually owned a 2001 Princess of the Nile when I was younger, though strictly as a collectors piece. I had a big Egypt phase, so I was a big fan of her. The back of her box spends a lot of time delving into her beauty routine, with her use of kohl, ocher, henna and perfumed oils.

However the biggest thing I can say about Princess of the Nile is that it's really unfortunate, but she's not Egyptian Queen Barbie, another Ancient Egypt-themed Barbie that predated Princess of the Nile by 7 years.

[unicorn-shieldmaiden]

A princess and her knight. A magical morning with @sydney_lauren00

📸: @alexis.baker42

[inky-bun]

Hey so my last post about stp did pretty damn well

Want some more?

[airitree]

~THE PRINCESS BRIDE~

But it is (loosely) historically inspired by the late 1400s... I'm also starting to understand horses now

[Prints are available on my shop!]

[xoxomyah]

🤍 𝓇𝓊𝒷𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓀𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 🤍

[elephantlovemedleys]

disney meme (favourite princess): belle - beauty & the beast

[sceletaflores]

this is literally me and my followers

[moonyackertarg]

behind every hot girl there is a deep history of obsessing over a particular time period or historical figure

[olenvasynyt]

I see Elain with curly hair. I also see her in really pretty renaissance styles with lace and pearl snoods and braids and AGH

[housesofmouses]

"She's only 15. Today she acted beyond her years. She showed great respect and gracefully accepted your criticism."

[jolivers-wonder]

[thebadguyswinhere]

„Too far my dude, too far”

There is always that one guy whose vibes are just bad

[ninetiesfairydust]

“Oh, I just love happy endings…”

[synergysilhouette]

Round four of Disney concept art I fell in love with

You'll notice some of this is concept art from rejected concepts, ie "Gigantic" and "Hiawatha."

[slightlyplant]

finished gopri precure and the villains were SO FUNNY