Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552 - 1614): Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait (via Sotheby's)

Source details and larger version.

Here's my seasonal collection of vintage (mostly weird) fashion.

🃏 ⤷ Twelfth Night Characters, Lines and Scene Numbers

Thought this table was pretty cool, so I copied it up onto Google Sheets to post here! :)

(Sir Toby above everyone in BOTH his amount of lines and his amount of scenes...as he should be though to be fair, what a cool guy)

(also I linked the source I got it from in the ID! ✨)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

by Roger Corman

New in the Digital Library: this grant for Lyme Regis was formally issued on 14 June, 1554 and is signed "Marye the quene."

A grant of a weekly Friday market and two annual fairs to Lyme Regis. Queen Mary gives a warrant to an unidentified official to draw up the grant for the town of ’Kings Lyme’ [Lyme Regis] of a weekly Friday market and two annual three-day fairs in February and September: the grants to include all stallage, piccage [a fee for breaking ground at a fair], tollage and customs with the court of piepowder [a special tribunal for actions during the market or fair], as well as the right of correcting weights and measures; those attending the fairs may not be ’suyd arrested or molested in any suyte ... except it be for acc[i]ons and suyts onely rysyng... w[i]t[h]in the seid Fayers’. ’Where at the humble suyte and peticion of the Burgesses of our Towne of Kings Lyme in our Countie of Dorsett, we are right welle contented and pleaced ... to give and graunte unto the Burgesses of our seid Towne and to their Successours forev[er] one m[ar]kett to be kepte weekely w[ith]in our seid Towne on the Friday forev[er], And also t[w]o Fayres yerely there to be holden and kept, that is to say thone Fayre to begynne the firste day of February yerely forev[er], And there to conynue three dayes then next folowyng, And thother Fayre to begynne the xx [20th] day of September yerely and there to continue for three days then next folowyng’.

(via Grant of weekly market and two annual fairs... | MU Digital Library, University of Missouri)

Central panel from a triptych depicting the Mass of Saint Gregory, Netherlands, ca. 1500.

I got inspired by the recently released images from Firebrand to make a whole video about the French Hood! Iconic, classic, and oh so difficult for costume designers to get right.

"Got milk?"

Bronze statues of Juana I of Castile and Archduchess Margaret of Austria in the Empty Tomb of Emperor Maximillian I

Barbara Longhi (Italian, 1552-1638): Saint Justina of Padua (via Dorotheum)

My lesbian great aunt showed me what immediately became one of my favorite films ever and a comfort show.

Dangerous Beauty, released in 1998 is based on a real person- Veronica Franco, a sixteenth century courtesan in Venice.

She is a new icon of mine. I would pray to this woman

Please watch it it's incredible

🃏 ⤷ "Look like th' innocent / flower, / But be the serpent under 't." [Macbeth 1.5.76-78]

Arthurian symbolism utilized by King Henry VIII in Habsburg diplomacy was a tribute to his esteemed mythic forefather, King Arthur, who commanded great respect from countless individuals, not least his imperial cousins. This article proposes that the King Arthur pageant at the 1522 London entry of Charles V was part of Henry’s broader use of Arthuriana in Habsburg political theatre, inspired by Maximilian I’s pseudo-ancestry. This article provides a new insight into Henry’s attempts to engage in the power politics of early sixteenth-century Europe and the use of British history in forging connections with his political rival.