#battlements

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

#castle #battlements

[sometimeslondon]

The White Tower at the Tower of London

#London #tower of london #white tower #castle #palace #royal #history #towers #battlements #England #UK

[illustratus]

Stitching the Standard by Edmund Blair Leighton

The painting depicts a nameless damsel on the battlements of a medieval castle making the finishing touches to a standard or pennant with a black eagle on a gold background. In a time of peace the woman has taken her needlework into the daylight away from the bustle of the castle.

On the crenelated battlements of a medieval castle a beautiful maiden makes the finishing touches to a pennant depicting a black eagle on a background of gold. It is a time of peace, the sun is shining and all is calm and the young lady has taken her needlework into the light away from the bustle of the castle. Painted in 1911 Stitching the Standard encapsulates the spirit of Pre-Raphaelitism in its later phase, in the years before WWI when life was more innocent and untarnished by the horrors of war. Romance, meticulous draughtsmanship and beauty above all else, are the hallmarks of the late Pre-Raphaelite movement of which Blair Leighton was a leading light. Painted a generation after Rossetti and Millais revived interest in chivalric tales of heroic knights, damsels in distress, romantic bards and mournful kings, Blair Leighton interpreted the same subjects without any loss of intensity. His paintings evoke the poetry of Tennyson and Malory's Morte d'Arthur but Stitching the Standard does not depict a particular Guinevere, or Lily Maid of Astolat; she is a nameless damsel of the Middle Ages with no story to tell.

#edmund blair leighton #damsel #castle #stitching #standard #battlements #medieval #pennant #black eagle #gold #woman #needlework #art #painting #history #europe #romantic #romanticism

[minecraftdreamer]

The fortress stood like an old sentinel guarding the secrets of a bygone era, its stone walls weathered but unyielding under the relentless siege of rain. The waters lapped at its foundations with the indifference of time itself, teasing at the thought of erosion—the final surrender of man's creation to the whims of nature.

It was a gray morning, the sky and the lake one continuous canvas of melancholic hues. The rain fell in steady, vertical lines, as if trying to stitch the fortress back to the earth from which it had once defiantly risen. Within this curtain of rain, not a soul stirred. It was as though life had forsaken this place, leaving it to its silent vigil.

No flags adorned the battlements, no sentries peered into the gloomy distance. The only movement came from the wind's whisper through the crenellated towers, an eerie mimicry of hushed conversations long since faded into the mists of time. This stronghold, once resonant with the clamor of armored feet and the ring of steel, now hosted only the soft symphony of raindrops against stone.

In moments like these, the fortress did not seem real, more a rendering from a poet's dream than a relic of the physical world. It begged for tales of gallant knights and lost loves, of epic battles and sacred oaths sworn upon its now silent halls. The rain, indifferent to human sentiment, continued to fall, painting everything with the sheen of forgotten days.

As morning bled into afternoon and the rain subsided to a drizzle, the fortress seemed almost to sigh, a release of its breath held through the centuries. And still, it stood, watching over waters unmoved—a perennial testament to the ephemeral glory of empires past.

#rain #fortress #sentinel #nature #erosion #melancholic #battlements #towers #history #knights #epic #forgotten #testament #empires #past #AI Art #Minecraft #mineblr #Minecraft Dreams

[whats-in-a-sentence]

"Look," said Tirian and pointed.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis

#book quotes #the chronicles of narnia #the last battle #c s lewis #pauline baynes #pointing #tower #battlements #stream #trees

[tenth-sentence]

On one side were the battlements, on the other a steep roof; below them, all shadowy and shimmery, the castle gardens; above them, stars and moon.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - C. S. Lewis

#book quote #the chronicles of narnia #prince caspian #c s lewis #summer nights #battlements #rooftop #shadows #shimmering #castle #gardens #stars #moon

[sabistarphotos]

February 4, 2023

Fort Moultrie, South Carolina

The flag being flown is the 35-star flag, which was the United States flag on February 18, 1863 when Fort Moultrie was recaptured by the Union during the American Civil War.

#photography #south carolina #fort moultrie #historical site #fort #first world war #ww1 #world war one #american civil war #battlements #cannons #wvep #american flag #national park service #national historical park #Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park

[oldschoolfrp]

Looks like some lovely freehand heraldry (Wargames Illustrated 28, December 1989)

“The work of Bill Brewer: ‘The Painted Soldier,’ Top: Two French Knights trample through somebody’s front garden. (25mm Essex Miniatures). Cottage scratch-built by Hales Models. Flowers from ‘Tulip’. Below: An English Knight of the same period. Wall by Ian Weekley of Battlements.”

#Wargames Illustrated #medieval #knights #heraldry #wargaming #Bill Brewer #Essex Miniatures #miniature wargaming #Ian Weekley #Battlements #Hales Models #The Painted Soldier #historical miniatures #historical wargaming #miniatures #1980s

[alphacentaurisss]

This is the Castle of Safety. Reblog if you need protection from the evil

#protection #battlements #sheeps are welcome #feodalcore

[israfelfrost]

He looks so regal!

#cats #cat #white cat #heterochromia #stray cat #battlements #corfutown

[emotionalwarmth]

Who is "wasting" her time sitting dangerously at the Skyhold battlements again? Talking to herself? Eluvia, of course. I made a redraw of an art containing Cole and Eluvia Lavellan. Still lots of room for improvement but... xD They are good friends, as Eluvia is a bit weird considering the standards of average children. She is the daughter of Solas so no surprises there. She is very sensitive about the Fade, thus she is considered weird and has difficulties making friends. She is an aspiring mage, and she finds great companionship with the compassion spirit, Cole. They are both "weird" but not to each other.

#redraw #Dragon Age #Dragon Age Inqiisition #Cole #Cole DA #Dragon Age Cole #My oc #OC #original character #original female character #Eluvia Lavellan #Lavellan #sky #sunset #Skyhold #battlements #Skyhold battlements #dusk #friendship #companion #compassion spirit #spirit #elf #elven oc #white hair #blond hair #rogue #mage #DA #clouds

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

#castle #battlements

[this-wandering-mind]

7.9.22

Bamburgh Castle

Famous for its 3000 year history of Saxon kings and  royal residence. Restored by Engineer William Armstrong the after destruction in the civil war.

#canons #battlements #bamburgh castle #The last kingdom #northumbria #saxons

[aczamudio]

I don't know what possessed me to think I could learn to freehand a castle in fisheye perspective in one day. Well, that's practice. Here's a WIP!

#wip #castle art #perspective art #art practice #medieval #battlements #crenellations

[forhim-aname]

Scripture of the Day—March 28, 2024 Josiah, the Child King and His Reforms Part 3 of 3 from the Bible’s King James ER Version

UPON HEARING PROPHETESS HULDA’S PREDICTIONS—YOUNG KING JOSIAH MAKES MORE REFORMS: 2nd Chronicles 34:29-33 - Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem, And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small; and HE READ IN THEIR EARS ALL THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT THT WAS FOUND IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.

And the king stood in his place, and MADE A COVENANT before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to KEEP his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to PERFORM the words of the covenant which are written in this book. And he CAUSED ALL THAT WERE PRESENT in Jerusalem and Benjamin TO STAND TO IT. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.   JOSIAH KEEPS PASSOVER IN THE 18TH YEAR OF HIS REIGN: 2Ki 23:21-26 - And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem. 

SOME OF JOSIAH’S REFORMS 2ND Kings 23:6-11: 1 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. [the GROVES were not trees—but cubicles enclosed by curtains, wherein those who came to the temple—could adulterously worship images of the goddess Ashteroth.] And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. 

2 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 

3 And he defiled Tophet—that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 

4 And he took away the HORSES [Strong’s Hebrew definition # H5483 & H6571—vehicles with rapid flight; part of a cavalry] that the kings of Judah had given to the sun [H8121 & H1053 - a prison facing the east with notched battlements (parapets at the top of a wall of a fort or castle, that has regularly spaced squared openings for shooting through)], at the entering in of the house of the LORD (this was in the suburbs, so it had to be at the entrance to a tunnel which led to the temple), by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was IN THE SUBURBS, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 

CONCLUSION - 2nd Kings 23:24-26: Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 

And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 

Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him-with. 

#King Josiah #predictions #reforms #Jerusalem #covenant #passover #groves #ashteroth #worship #horses=ships #prisons #battlements #wizards

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Chepstow Castle

#castle #chepstow #tower #battlements