#16th century inspired

[cy-lindric]

Progress on my current project ! Having some with stripes and slashing this time around. Didn't take any progress photos for the hosen/pants because it broke my brain a little, lol. I also started doing fingerloop braiding for the lacing cords.

I still have to fix a few things on there, including fixation on the brustfleck, and after that onwards to making the hat !

[ravangie]

I was working on this one drawing but got confused with costumes, so I decided to quickly draw some references for myself.

✨So please, welcome to the ball✨:

Princess Shrek🍃

and Princess Charming🌹

Here's what I'm thinking: both Princesses came to the ball in their best historically inspired dresses with their grand skirts and everything, but the rest of the time they are rocking their casual outfits: Princess Charming wearing her mini-skirt-like tunic, and Princess Shrek wearing her little pants and a shirt with a vest over it.

More Princess Shrek and Princess Charming here

[anglerflsh]

per amor cortese

[pol-ski]

Nicolaus Copernicus (Konstanty Laszczka, Polish sculptor)

Happy birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus!

Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 — May 24, 1543) is primarily known as an exceptional astronomer who formulated the true model of the solar system, which led to an unprecedented change in the human perception of Earth’s place in the universe. This great Pole, who is rightly included among the greatest minds of the European Renaissance, was also a clergyman, a mathematician, a physician, a lawyer and a translator. He also proved himself as an effective strategist and military commander, leading the defence of Olsztyn against the attack of the German Monastic Order of the Teutonic Knights. Later on, he exhibited great organizational skills, quickly rebuilding and relaunching the economy of the areas devastated by the invasion of the Teutonic Knights. He also served in diplomacy and participated in the works of the Polish Sejm.

Copernicus’ scientific achievements in the field of economics were equally significant, and place him among the greatest authors of the world economic thought. In 1517 Copernicus wrote a treatise on the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money. He noted that the“debasement of coin” was one of the main reasons for the collapse of states. He was therefore one of the first advocates of modern monetary policy based on the unification of the currency in circulation, constant care for its value and the prevention of inflation, which ruins the economy. In money he distinguished the ore value (valor) and the estimated value (estimatio), determined by the issuer. According to Copernicus, the ore value of a good coin should correspond to its estimated value. This was not synonymous, however, with the reduction of the coin to a piece of metal being the subject of trade in goods. The ore contained in the money was supposed to be the guarantee of its price, and the value of the legal tender was assigned to it by special symbols proving its relationship with a given country and ruler. Although such views are nothing new today, in his time they constituted a milestone in the development of economic thought.

Additionally Copernicus was not only a theorist of finance, but he was also the co-author of a successful monetary reform, later also implemented in other countries. It was Copernicus, the first of the great Polish economists, who in 1519 proposed to King Sigismund I the Old to unify the monetary system of the Polish Crown with that of its subordinate Royal Prussia. The principles described in the treatise published in 1517 were decades later repeated by the English financier Thomas Gresham and are currently most often referred to around the world as Gresham’s law. Historical truth, however, requires us to restore the authorship of this principle to its creator, for example through the popularization of knowledge about the Copernicus-Gresham Law. (© NBP - We protect the value of money).

[reallunargift]

Seven naked swords, all to crown you

[kayayeteae]

Deliver us, Thunder.

[dcrthvcder]

aegon is a rapist btw

so is every other man in a song of ice and fire universe so where do we get from there

[love-for-carnation]

Fragment of Embroidered Border with the Carnation, Spain, 16th century

[mashamorevvna]

gale/gortash are about tangible class warfare in the bedroom and about triangulating the position of a secret, third class that stands in opposition to old educated money and poor as dirt working class, and willing that into existence for the purpose of engaging with it in a sexual roleplay

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

''Vanitas'' by Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1535-1540)

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

Combining Gowther’s (generalized) and my (fixation on historical clothing) autism swag rather than write my short phrase outline.

[stackslip]

insane to see so many videos and pieces analyzing the lore and historical inspirations of blasphemous and not one of them mentions the reconquista

[daughter-of-siyati]

WIP to show that I did not forget, I am just slow

I also need a few more suggestions!

[asitrita]

I'm so happy I managed to get the look almost complete

And she reminds me of aph nyo!Spain. The moment I saw the dress I knew I wanted it.

[tyrantisterror]

There's a tweet that's gone viral where a person laments realizing that Star Wars "ripped off" Dune, and how learning all the elements Star Wars took from its inspiration tainted it. And I think it shows how poisonous the emphasis on originality in art can be. Because yes, it's wonderful when art makes something new, but it's also wonderful seeing how art plays on what came before, and the conversations it has with its predecessors.

There's going to be a lot of people talking about how much of an impact Goku from Dragon Ball Z has made on fiction in the wake of Akira Toriyama's recent passing, and all the characters who were inspired by him and his story. But Goku himself is derivative - he's inspired by the Monkey King from Journey to the West, one of the first novels ever written. He's far from the first character inspired by the Monkey King, either, and also far from the last.

None of this makes Goku's impact any less than it is. None of this decreases how Goku's story has inspired countless imitators. Just as Toriyama created a new icon from imitating what he loved about Journey to the West, so did Toriyama inspire countless artists to make their own iconic works with his take on the Monkey King's archetype. Goku is, in many ways, the heir to a legacy that spans back to the 16th century, and likely beyond - because I doubt the original Monkey King was formed in a vacuum.

We're taught to think that originality and imitation are opposites that cannot coexist, but they're not mutually exclusive. One can follow in another's footsteps and still take a new journey with its own unique twists and turns. The great works of art are not spawned in the absence of inspiration - they are in conversation with what came before and what will come after.

[felixwhetsel]

textiles isn't my area of expertise but i have some vague concepts/thoughts about the noldor styling themselves the same way they did in valinor, but how the available flora in beleriand would change the materials/dyes they used, plus the influence of techniques and styles/designs from the people living in beleriand