#spanish veil

[theseimmortalcoils]

@aciddoll in a beautiful Spanish mantilla

[royalty-nobility]

Usenda

Artist: Isidoro Logroño Lozano (Spanish, 1826-1895)

Date: c. 1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Queens Ermesinda and Adosinda (Usenda), respectively the daughter and granddaughter of Don Pelayo, played a crucial role during the Reconquest, recognised since the Middle Ages, as transmitters of dynastic rights in the Christian kingdom of Asturias. Isabella II gave them a place in the Chronological Series as titular or proprietary queens, which they apparently were not, in her efforts to shore up her own legitimacy. Although the Academy of History issued a report advising against this, both queens were kept in the gallery, although it was decided to remove the inscriptions identifying them as titular sovereigns and giving the dates of their reigns, which all the other portraits bore at the bottom of their frames.

[galleryofart]

Majas on a Balcony

Artist: Attributed to Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Date: c. 1800–1810

Medium: Oil on Canvas

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

Description

The women known as majas visually distinguished themselves through opulent, exaggerated traditional dress that became synonymous with Spanish popular culture. Goya’s innovative composition of majas on a balcony seen from the street - accompanied by somewhat threatening male companions - was one of his most well-known paintings and is today in a private collection. This version may be a variant that Goya used to explore different expressive and stylistic emphases, or it may have been painted by a close follower. Goya’s complex compositional device, in which balcony and picture plane overlap on the brink of public and private spaces, would inspire French painter Edouard Manet in his depictions of urban life in Paris during the late 1860s.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, atelier (Spanish, 1617-1682) Veil of Veronica, 17th century Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

[vigilskept]

4 for dinara because i love suffering

(you get this only in the spanish antivan because you dragged me into the angst pit with you anon. severe emotional damage thinking about lucanis getting handed this letter by emmrich after she's gone)

4. a letter from your OC to their love interest

Ojalá que nunca leas estas palabras. Si todo va bien, serán cenizas en el viento dentro de poco.

Aun así, estamos todos dispuestos para la posibilidad que no regresaremos. Cueste lo que cueste. Para mí, no me arrepiento de nada, salvo que no tenía más tiempo contigo.

Un poco de avaricia, tal vez. Estos breves meses que teníamos era como un sueño. Ni los dioses ni la ruina podía ensombrecerlo para mí.

Sé que no tengo ningún derecho a pedirte eso, pero por favor, no te cierres al mundo y no te des prisa para reunir conmigo. Deseo nada más que seas feliz.

Te amo, Lucanis. Siempre.

for the oc codex prompts

[nupaintings]

[pinkytoothlesso11]

Through the Veil: Trollhunters Halloween special

With Toby left behind dead, along with Mary and Eli, and the teens safe, as well as Jim adjusting to his new arm, Strickler is questioned. And they receive some surprising answers.

A plan is put into action to save Barbara, but the kids have a issue with the method.

Barbara and Walter have their long awaited talk.

[bobbole]

Mario Sorrenti for Vogue Italia

[legally-a-bastard]

I cannot tell if treviso (and by extension the people there) are meant to be inspired by Italy or by Spain

[thefandommess]

Shout out to the dudes at concerts who volunteer to take you on their shoulders and continue dancing as if you weighed nothing. You guys did more for curing my body-image issues than 4 years of therapy.

[lacomandante]

I have 4508564556 photos, but here is how my dress came out for the ball! I'm actually very pleased with my spencer- it looks very beautiful and I'm so pleased with the colors! The white dress itself I tried to convert to a lower neckline, but alas, it's a little frumpy, but I don't care.

The Victory Ball of 1812 was hosted in the Palacio Santoña on May 3rd, a few weeks ago, to commemorate the victory against the French 212 years prior. There was even a representative of the current Duke of Wellington who dressed up as the Duke, and it was quite a pleasant surprise. I had a wonderful time, danced a lot, hung out with a lot of amazing friends, and the chance to see the palace, which is always closed to the public, was a lovely experience! This was my first reenactment ball and it was worth all the sleepless nights to get my sewing done!

[sw0rds-and-p3ns]

Would y’all be interested if I did like a vinyl of the week type thing? My collection has been growing rapidly and I think it would be cool to share some of them and things I like about each record.

[royalty-nobility]

María Cristina de las Dos Sicilias

Artist: Vicente López Portaña (Spanish, 1772-850)

Title English: Portrait of Spanish queen-consort Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies.

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1830

Medium: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Maria Cristina Ferdinanda di Borbone, Principessa delle Due Sicilie, Spanish: María Cristina de Borbón, Princesa de las Dos Sicilias; 27 April 1806 – 22 August 1878) was the queen consort of Spain from 1829 to 1833 and queen regent of the kingdom from 1833, when her daughter became queen at age two, to 1840. By virtue of her short marriage to King Ferdinand VII of Spain, she became a central character in Spanish history for nearly 50 years, thanks to introducing a bicameral model of government based on the Bourbon Restoration in France: the Spanish Royal Statute of 1834.

[drfrankensteinvsthequeerborgs]

David/Jonathan walked so Destiel could run

[kingsunboo]

Seeing that "estoy aprendiendo español" on my bio when I've kinda given up on that weeks ago oops

[queermediamonday]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: La Noche de Walpurgis (1971)

I kind of missed the actual Walpurgis Night by a week, but better late than never.

(Countess Wandesa Dárvula de Nadasdy and Genevieve Bennett, after she has been turned into a vampire.)

La Noche de Walpurgis, also known as “The Werewolf vs The Vampire Woman” is a 1971 Spanish horror movie generally credited with starting the Spanish horror boom of the 1970s. It also falls into the category of lesbian vampire movies.

The story is about two young women, who, while on the search for the grave of a medieval countess, meet a handsome but mysterious man who invites them to stay over. They accidentally revive the countess, turning her into a vampire, and it also turns out that their host is in fact a werewolf. One of the young women is seduced and turned by the vampire, the other starts an ill-advised affair with the werewolf. The two sides finally clash in a fight on Walpurgis Night.

The movie is the fifth in a series about the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, but can be perfectly well enjoyed without you knowing that.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!