#Claudio Coello

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Saint Michael the Archangel (detail) Claudio Coello

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Claudio Coello

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La adoración de la Sagrada Forma

by Claudio Coello (Castilian, 1642 – 1693) oil on canvas (300 × 500 cm), c. 1685

Real Monasterio y Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

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Spanish Baroque dress -

Top  Noble lady, three-quarter length, in a green gold-embroidered dress by Spanish School (location ?). From jeannepompadour.tumblr.com/post/161911822952/portrait-of-a-noble-lady-three-quarter-length-in 701X844 @72 176kj.

Second row left  1682 One of two women wearing Spanish saya style dress by Cornelis Schut III (location ?). From jeannepompadour.tumblr.com/tagged/baroque%20spain/page/3 1075X1400 @72 522kj.

Second row right  1682 Other of two women wearing Spanish saya style dress by Cornelis Schut III (location ?). From jeannepompadour.tumblr.com/tagged/baroque%20spain/page/3 1280X1646 @72 654kj.

Third row  1690 Lady by Claudio Coello (auctioned by Alcala Subastas). From pinterest.com/danielbeltran_db/carlos-ii/ 805X1088 @72 354kj.

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Claudio Coello, La Virgen y el Niño adorados por san Luis, rey de Francia, 1665 x

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Claudio Coello: Magdalena penitente. 1650-1675

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Państwo Boże

Augustyn napisał swój traktat, składający się z 22 ksiąg niedługo po najeździe Rzymu przez Wizygotów w 410 roku czyli 1612 lat temu. Wydarzenie to wprawiło społeczeństwo Imperium rzymskiego w stan szoku. Wielu tłumaczyło je karą bogów za porzucanie tradycyjnych religii rzymskich na rzecz chrześcijaństwa. Państwo Boże było zamierzone przez Augustyna jako umocnienie chrześcijan poprzez ukazanie…

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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria Claudio Coello (1642–1693) English Heritage, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House

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Mary of Hungary, Queen of Hungary 1516-1526, Governor of the Netherlands 1531-1555

Called mannish for "her authoritarian manner, her overly public life and her 'masculine' activities".

Carlos II, King of Spain, reigned 1665-1700

Caused a succession crisis, but not intentionally.

from anon:

"-patron of the arts! had some very good court painters - claudio coello, luca giordano, and juan carreño de miranda -appointed capable ministers like medinaceli and oropesa -loved his first wife marie-louise d'orléans very much -was a silly funny little guy who liked to play harmless pranks on his courtiers -listen we know the whole succession crisis was a clusterfuck but it was NOT carlos's fault!!! he tried his best to navigate through it and the first candidate he picked (joseph ferdinand of bavaria) was actually a good choice but he died in 1699 so carlos had to fucking go all the way back to square ONE and he knew he couldnt please everyone with his choice -had a very funny episode of teenage rebellion when he allied with his bastard brother don juan of austria against his own mother the queen regent"

from @master-of-the-opera-house:

Intersex icon 💛💜

No heirs but spawned countless memes inaccurate or not we all have him to thank <3

Mentally eel girlies rep

Historians still get him wrong: scapegoat for everything going into shit when it really was just the snowballed problems of monarchy and generations of inbreeding he did not have agency in like literally everyone was inbred anyway

He was NOT totally incapable of ruling and NOT a puppet king

Extremely poor little meow meow-core

Emo goth girlies rep

Nice hair at least for a while

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I am quite amused by your decision to draw Lancelot with short hair and Galahad with long hair. I personally imagine their hairstyles to be the opposite. What was your decision behind their hair lengths, if you don't mind me asking.

oh man my first designs for them were like five years ago now (thats so wild to think about) but basically my thought process was. i dont think lancelot could have long hair because he spends so much time like. sleeping on the ground in the woods. or wearing full armour for days on end. it would get so tangled and matted like its just not sustainable.

galahad on the other hand was raised in a convent and probably pretty sheltered. i see him as someone who is very neat and orderly with his belongings and his person. i also based his appearance a lot on paintings of st. michael vanquishing the devil, a common subject in art history. the images are very striking to me because of this strange, perfect coldness with which michael is depicted. its meant to be celebratory and triumphant but it always strikes me as unsettling. he somehow seems strange and out of place in paintings where he is the main subject, by dint of his ostensible perfection and victory. idk, ill put a couple under the cut to show what im talking about

Luca Giordano 1660

Guido Reni, 1635

Claudio Coello, 1660s

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Saint Michael the Archangel.

Claudio Coello.

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Claudio Coello, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1685 x

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THE FIRST SPANISH ASTRONAUT

Luis Carrero Blanco was the prime minister of Spain and handpicked heir to Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. On December 20, 1973, Blanco headed home following Sunday mass in his chauffeured Dodge 3700 GT. As the car progressed down Calle Claudio Coello, two men watched from a safe distance. When the car passed a certain building—104 Claudio Coello—one of the men (codenamed “Kiskur”) signaled to his partner (“Argala”), who stood at a distance on a ladder, dressed as an electrician.

At that precise moment, Argala pressed the detonator.

Blanco’s car launched higher than 100 feet into the air. It cleared the roof of a five-story building and landed on a balcony on the building’s back side. The incredible flight earned Carrero Blanco the sarcastic nickname “the first Spanish astronaut.” Carrero Blanco, his bodyguard, and his chauffeur all quickly died from their injuries.

Back down on the street, Kiskur and Argala navigated the post-blast chaos and met with their getaway driver, “Atxulo.” The trio went into hiding, aided by their comrades in the Basque Homeland and Country group (ETA).

Operation Ogre was a multifaceted success. First, the ETA neutralized its target. Second, the explosion was captured on film; the spectacular image of Blanco’s car riding the crest of the explosion became a media sensation, ultimately etching a place into the cultural consciousness of Spain. Finally, and most importantly, Carrero’s flirtation with the heavens was a catalyst for Spain’s transition from a far-right dictatorship to democracy.*

Following Blanco’s death, the mangled frame of his Dodge 3700 GT went on display at the Army Museum, which at the time was located in Madrid (now in Toledo). The Spanish government hoped the destroyed auto would frighten citizens against antifascist action, but the Spanish people had endured 34 years of ultraviolence and repression via Franco’s limpieza social.

Like the Apollo 11 spacecraft four years before, the airborne Dodge became a symbol of possibility.

* Source: “How an Assassination Helped Turn Dictatorship Into Democracy.” ** "El Pais” went into a bit more detail about the ETA operatives in this article. *** “Escuderia” published a nice piece on the significance of Carrero’s Dodge.