#spain history

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[taniatas]

Hello my friend 👋, May I request? Can you draw Mariana of Austria pregnant 🤰. Thank you 😊

hi my dear marianadecarlos!! specially for you!

[baudouinette]

this 13th century art from Al-Andalus is one of my favorite finds ever. I dressed with my Andalusi veil the other day and then saw this and it was like looking at a past life. She even has henna on her hands. (I was on a mission to find representations of its use in the peninsula).

And I love how her henna looks recently done perhaps even still with the paste on, while the other redhead at the other side looks like her tattoo has been there for days or weeks and it’s fading. The details are amazing!! Although don’t look too closely at the one in the middle, her clothing is… *ehem* rather light.

[alternatehistoryworlds]

A Better Life for Isabella of Aragon(1470 - 1523).

Isabella was the firstborn son of the Catholic kings Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. In 1490 she married Afonso, the heir to the Portuguese crown. The prince and princess fell in love with each other at first sight and the marriage should have been a happy one, but a year after the wedding Afonso fell off his horse and died.Isabella was heartbroken and mourned her spouse around the clock. She convinced herself that God was punishing her and even wanted to go to a convent to pray for the salvation of her husband's soul, as well as to pray for her sins, but the parents of the Infanta refused her request.In 1497, her brother Juan's wedding took place, and a few months after that Isabella also remarried.Her husband became King Manuel I of Portugal. The Infanta did not want to remarry, but Ferdinand and Isabella insisted on it. The girl did not love her second husband, and Manuel on the contrary, very much loved Isabella and for several years asked for her hand, but she constantly refused him. And when finally, they joined the bonds of marriage king was very happy and hoped that Isabella can still someday love him. A month after the wedding Isabella learned of the death of her brother and now she was heir to the Castilian crown. For the sake of his wife, the king appointed a regent in Portugal and moved with her to Castile. Manuel surrounded his wife with love and attention. After a while, Isabella stopped resisting and accepted his advances.In 1504 Isabella's mother died and she became Queen Isabella II of Castile. Manuel did not take the crown and the power of his wife, but on the contrary helped and gave her wise advice. The king began to live on two countries, after his wife ascended the throne. Isabella, unlike her mother, did not become a powerful queen, but in her reign in the kingdom was calm. After many years, the queen still managed to love Manuel. And after the king's death in 1521, she noticed that she missed him. Isabella died in 1523. In the last years of her life, she became very religious and practiced self-defense, as well as keeping fasts and refusing to eat. Because of this, she became sick often and died of cold complications. After the queen's death, the throne passed to her eldest son Miguel. Isabella and Manuel had five children.

[reinhardhohn]

Alhambra. Pinturas restauradas de la sala de los Reyes

[chemaspain]

Isabel I de Castilla fue la primera reina de la España católica, junto a su esposo Fernando II de Aragón consiguieron unificar los reinos de España al concluir la Reconquista al Moro tras conseguir arrebatar el Reino de Granada en 1492 al último rey moro, Boabdil, después de siete siglos de ocupación musulmana.

En su reinado y gracias a su mecenazgo, Cristóbal Colón descubrió América y fue una ardiente defensora de los indígenas de los pueblos descubiertos contribuyendo a su protección y educación.

[steyci18]

me casually sketching the Infantes de Carrion 😫😩

Right one is Fernando, (Fernan or Ferran, depends on which version you read),González, and the other is Diego González 😐

I like them, wtf

[whereskatieandgrady]

Bilbao, Spain

[enjymemink]

Thank you Spain, we'll remember your good deeds.

[illustratus]

Full moon behind the Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor, on the summit of Mount Tibidabo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

[semperardens-juli]

"Don Quixote's delusions of heroism can be read as a symbol of his nation's wasteful expansionism in the face of decline."

on Interpretations of Don Quixote from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

leave a little kindness

[taniatas]

[baudouinette]

Never posted her here because it is unfinished and I don’t like a lot of things about it but this is an interpretation of Lluna Valentia bint Al Mualim De Bosch, the character from my Baldwin story.

She is from the Almohad Caliphate in Al Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula) daughter of a Muslim and a Christian.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Bison From Cave Of Altamira, Santander, Spain, ca. 10,000 B.C, with artist’s interpretation.

[livesunique]

The Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain,

Courtesy: Kate Bach

[chemaspain]

Una verdadera unidad de combate.

"Alguien dijo, o escribió, que en aquellos tiempos famosos y terribles los españoles peleabamos todos, desde nobles hasta labriegos. Y era cierto. Unos lo hicimos por hambre de gloria y dinero, y otros por hambre de verdad: por sacudirnos de encima la miseria y llevar un trozo de pan a la boca. En los campos de batalla de medio mundo, desde las Indias a las Filipinas, el Mediterráneo, el Norte de África y Europa entera, contra toda clase de naciones bárbaras o civilizadas, peleamos hidalgos y campesinos, bachilleres y pastores, caballeros y pícaros, amos y criados, soldados y poetas. Pelearon Cervantes, Garcilaso, Lope de Vega Calderón, Ercilla. Peleamos sin descanso en los Andes y en los Alpes, en las llanuras de Italia, en la altiplanicie mexicana, en la selva del Darién, a orillas del Elba, el Amazonas, el Danubio, el Escalda, el Orinoco, en las costas de Inglaterra, en Irlanda, Lepanto, las Terceras, Argel, Orán, Bahía, Otumba, Pavía, la Goleta, el canal de Constantinopla, el Egeo, Francia, Italia, Flandes, Alemania. En todas las tierras y climas próximos o lejanos, bajo nieve, sol, lluvia o viento, huestes de españoles pequeños y recios, barbudos, fanfarrones, valerosos y crueles, hechos a la miseria, el sufrir y las fatigas, con todo por ganar y sin otra cosa que perder salvo la gorja, unos musitando una oración, otros con los labios mudos y los dientes apretados, y otros renegando a cada paso de Cristo, de los oficiales, de los trabajos y de la misma vida en todas las lenguas de España, amotinados a trechos y con las pagas atrasadas o sin ellas, seguimos a nuestros capitanes bajo las rotas banderas, haciendo temblar al mundo entero."

Íñigo Balboa en El Puente de los Asesinos, VII Libro de Las Aventuras del Capitán Alatriste, de Arturo Pérez-Reverte.