By Spanish artist Victoria Francés
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Rose Triptych © Victoria Frances
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"er...nice costume"
i believe thats what tori said if i remember well
upon @bazwillendinflames 's request i drew the iconic scene in which tori meets frances at the halloween party!!!
requests are still open
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Stigma Diaboli by Victoria Frances
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Mirror case, ivory, the Storming on the Castle of Love, France (Paris), second quarter of the fourteenth century
“The scene is an allegorical representation of an attack on the Castle of Love. Knights attack the Castle of Love 'defended' by women, who ardently receive the knights when they climb over the battlements, above a twin-towered gate house with a portcullis.
The subject of the Siege of the Castle of Love appears frequently on secular ivories in the fourteenth century; the Museum owns two other mirror cases and a casket bearing similar representations. An allegorical siege of the Castle of Love seems to have been frequently enacted during the Middle Ages; the thirteenth century chronicler, Rolandino of Padua, for instance, records a festival in the town of Treviso in 1214 where a castle was built, and defended by the women and girls of the town while being attacked with fruits, perfumes and flowers thrown by the men.
This type of festivity remained popular for several centuries. We know that the marriage of Henry VII's son, Prince Arthur, in 1501, was celebrated with a Masque of the Mount of Love besieged by knights, and a similar pageant took place regularly in Fribourg up until the eighteenth century.”
— Victoria and Albert Museum Collections
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Marquise, vampire princess of the cemetery. Favole: Stone Tears
© Victoria Frances
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