Female saints by Francisco de Zurbarán:

Saint Casilda, ca. 1630-45 // Saint Ursula, ca. 1635-40 // Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, ca. 1630-35 // Saint Dorotea, ca. 1648

Vittore Carpaccio - Madonna and Child between Saint Cecilia and Saint Ursula. 1490 - 1493

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (Italian, 1609-1662) Sainte Ursule martyre, ca. 1650 Musée de Picardie, Amiens

Madonna und Kind zwischen den Heiligen Ursula und Franziskus von Assisi, c. 1495. von Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano

Anne of Brittany with Saint Anne, Saint Ursula and Saint Catherine by Jean Bourdichon, 1503-1508.

charlotte's art history tarot - three of pentacles

Art: Saint Ursula with Two Angels and a Donor – Benozzo Gozzoli

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reliquary busts of female saints, believed to be some of the virgin companions of St. Ursula. ca 1520-1530

Martin Schongauer, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, ca. 1475-90.

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

Believed to be Caravaggio’s last painting, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610) is on display at the National Gallery, London, until 21st July 2024. Displayed alongside Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist (1609-10), the mini-exhibition details Caravaggio’s attempted return to Rome, where a sudden fever caused his untimely death. Caravaggio (1571-1610) depicts St Ursula’s martyrdom in a…

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The narratives of the world are numberless. Narrative is first and foremost a prodigious variety of genres, themselves distributed amongst different substances – as though any material were fit to receive man’s stories. Able to be carried by articulated language, spoken or written, fixed or moving images, gestures, and the ordered mixture of all these substances; narrative is present in myth, legend, fable, tale, novella, epic, history, tragedy, drama, comedy, mime, painting (think of Carpaccio’s Saint Ursula), stained-glass windows, cinema, comics, news items, conversation. Moreover, under this almost infinite diversity of forms, narrative is present in every age, in every place, in every society; it begins with the very history of mankind and there nowhere is nor has been a people without narrative. All classes, all human groups, have their narratives, enjoyment of which is very often shared by men with different, even opposing, cultural backgrounds. Caring nothing for the division between good and bad literature, narrative is international, transhistorical, transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself.

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598-1664) Saint Ursula, c.1635-40 Musei di Strada Nuova

Made with pencil colors at October 22 of 2022

Just a lil rant about my newest beloved fantasy author

Something I love so, so much about T Kingfisher's (@tkingfisher) work is how she portrays the mundane as something so beautiful and wonderful. The majority of her protagonists are all quite regular people, with regular lives, regular hobbies, and regular bodies. And how despite that, all her characters are so interesting, so lovable, and so deeply and utterly human.

Its amazing seeing a series where multiple female romantic leads are plus sized, and there is a mix of both body positivity and body neutrality. Because like yeah, they are gorgeous. But also, at the end of the day bodies are just bodies. A bit in Paladin's Faith got me thinking about this, where the male lead asks about the female lead's stretchmarks, and its very much treated as just a normal thing that she has as a woman, not detracting from her beauty, not adding to it. They just are.

And don't get me started about how nearly all of her male romantic leads, who are for the most part, big, strong, sword-wielding paladins, have knowledge of some form of textile craft, and how it doesn't detract from their masculinity at all. And instead it is something that would actually be very useful for a soldier to know.

Tldr if anybody else is obsessed with T Kingfisher's work as much as I am please let me know so that my long suffering reading friend can have a break from it.

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