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archeryicons · 10 months

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avalonrph · 11 months

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in the link is 575 100x100 icons of bradley james as giuliano de' medici in the show medici. screencaps were taken from screencapped.net and edited by me into icons. please like or reblog this post if you use them.

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arthur-rex · 2 years

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Vampire Arthur Pendragon / Giuliano de Medici Icons

Total: 9 icons Size: 150 x 150 Made for Halloween 2021 Please like and reblog if you plan to use, etc. Please do not edit or repost as your own.

#Arthur Pendragon #Giuliano de Medici #Bradley James #Arthur Pendragon Icons #Vampire icons #Lots of candles #Vampire aesthetic #Halloween 2021 #FIRE

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zuzcreation · 3 years

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Icons of Bradley James as Giuliano de Medici in Medici (x8)

#bradley james #giuliano de medici #medici #mediciedit #icons #200x200 #perioddramaedit #echodesplaines #100disorders #y: 2021

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medici-de-medici · 4 years

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Sandro appreciation post because yes I love the brothers (uh well mostly the poor baby who was stabbed to death) and the powerful women (so badass and inspirational especially Mama Lucrezia), Sandro represents the essence of the time period for me. After his best friend Giuliano died, he personally experienced a renaissance of his own art “because after death comes life” as he put it. This personal journey of his highlights how even in a period of political instability, art and beauty is what keeps society going. It is what kept him going.

As an artist myself, his journey really spoke to me...especially when he lost his muse. It’s really inspiring that even though his greatest inspirations died, he was able to keep going and produce some of his best works. He didn’t forget about his inspiration, Simonetta because he never stops painting Venus. What really moved me is that he didn’t forget Giuliano. In season 3 when he shows his sketch of a Greek god to little Giulio and calls it a “likeness of your father” that was one of the sweetest moments of the show. What Sandro does truly honours Giuliano’s memory unlike Lorenzo’s obsessive and dark path of revenge.

Sandro as a character is so strong because he is as driven and ambitious as Lorenzo but unlike Lorenzo, he sticks to his morals and principles. Can I just say he does this in the most iconic way by throwing shade at the Pope?? “It is for his glory, not ours”

Lastly, yes, he is super stubborn but he always comes around when it matters. He reconciled with his best friend as he died even though their fight was HUGE because it was about his art and his connection to his muse which was his ENTIRE life. He also stood by Lorenzo as he died (who lets face it was not deserving of all the sympathy when he died because he sold his freaking daughter and tried to use Sandro and his art as a political tool and replaced him with Leonardo). He is such a beautifully written and portrayed character and he is super underrated and deserves better. Let’s not forget both part 1 and part 2 end with his art because that’s what this show is about “the beauty and the pain”

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thegreymoon · 4 years

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giuliano de medici?

Obligatory disclaimer here, anon, I’m really not a fan of this show and Giuliano de Medici. I think it’s a terribly written show and he’s a terribly written character, and even though it’s no secret I find Bradley James to be one of the most beautiful people alive, I’m going to go with

Mind you, when I say ‘pretty’, I mean so goddamn beautiful I was willing to wade through THREE seasons of utterly infuriating bullshit just for him! (OK, two, because I still haven’t summoned the willpower to sit through season 3 even though I absolutely still plan on doing it 😭😭) I mean, just look at this man’s eyes:

He’s so gorgeous, I could weep 😭

Also, I’m not going to pretend even for a second that the fact that the costumes gave off such strong Arthur vibes didn’t have anything to do with me sitting through this nonsense and almost enjoying it. When he said ‘I don’t have time for this,’ in this very scene, I got hit over the head with so much deja vu, because it is Arhur’s line, and it was totally Arthur’s delivery! His battle scenes gave me life, but why were they so short? Why was there not more? Why does everything about this shitty show have to be so goddamn unsatisfying? Did the Medici producers not see Merlin season 5? Did they not see what this man can do? Such a wasted opportunity, oh my fucking God!

Anyway, rant incoming:

Mind you, I don’t blame Bradley for the unsatisfactory mess Giuliano turned out to be, he did the best he could with the nothing he was given. Only Lorenzo got some semi-decent writing (and even this was not consistent), but Giuliano got such nonsense story arcs, I was sitting there not believing my eyes and ears! I’ve seen gutter trash soap operas with more believable cliche romance! Hell, I’ve seen twelve-year-old girls write better self-insert fanfiction! Even cartoons have better villains than that caricature of a husband, I was laughing out loud at what they were trying to get us to swallow! I mean that line, “It’s not the mask that attracts me, it’s what lies beneath it,” OMG, YOU’VE SEEN HER TWICE IN YOUR LIFE AND SPOKEN THREE WORDS TO HER, JUST SHUT UP!! 😣😫😭

It never gets better, unfortunately, and they wasted the character on this laughable romance instead of doing just about anything else with Giuliano! More of his relationship with Lorenzo, with Bianca, with Lucrezia, or even with Francesco! Hell, I would have even taken Sandro (even though the guy playing him can’t act to save his life and the character is beyond annoying)! Or, I don’t know, and this is just a radical idea here, they could have made Simonetta less two-dimensional and given us an actually believable romantic sub-plot with properly developed characters!

Oh, Gwen, how I missed you! I was forced to eat my words on each and every criticism I ever made about how poorly Arwen was written on Merlin, because it was perfect, perfect writing in comparison! So good, it could be taught in a literature master class! Oh my God, just how do you take two such beautiful people like Bradley and Matilda, put them together and end up with something so infuriatingly nonsensical, forgettable and bland? Colin Morgan has spoiled me and I confess that there was a moment in all my frustration where I had an ugly thought that Bradley James just has no chemistry with women on screen at all, but that’s not really true, because even at it’s worst, Arwen was never this bad and there was never a time when he and Angel actually made me roll my eyes at some of the worst pieces of dialogue I’ve ever heard. Then, of course, there was his performance with Barbara Hershey in Damien, which was on a whole another level of intense, so I have to conclude that the reason Giuliano and Simonetta and that whole ridiculous subplot were so terrible is because the writers could not write for shit.

Also, as much as I love Bradley, I feel like he was tragically miscast in this role. I just didn’t buy him as Daniel’s younger brother at all. Not only is Bradley older IRL, he has the older brother vibes as well. It’s in his voice, his posture. Better writing for Giuliano notwithstanding, I feel like this show could have been vastly improved if Bradley and Daniel had switched roles. Again, did none of these people see Merlin? Did they not see how iconic Arthur was and what Bradley can do? Because, damn, that man has presence when you give him the proper material to work with, and they took advantage of none of it! I like Daniel, I really do, but even though he was given the best material on this show, he just didn’t fully deliver and I have yet to see him in anything where I am impressed by his performance and not just sitting there for his pretty face.

And since this has devolved into a looooooooong post that no longer has anything to do with the hotness of Giuliano de Medici, let me just mention him:

Who is this guy and how do I get more of him, because, OMG! 😍🔥🔥🔥😍

He has the most fascinating face I’ve seen in a while, and the way he moves and carries himself is mesmerising! He deserved better-written villainy than what he was given! This show truly did not deserve its cast! Francesco Pazzi was so terribly written, it’s laughable, and yet, here was this guy, stealing the show left and right, in spite of the shit material he was given to work with! Somebody please cast him in something more worthy (preferably in English, or at the very least with English subtitles so that I can watch)! 😭😭

The thing that infuriates me about this series is that they had some fantastic actors here that totally deserved better, such a fascinating period to work with and some of the most interesting figures in history and they spent all their time and money on making them as cliche, two-dimensional, cartoonish and bland as possible.

Also, I can’t end this post without mentioning how much I loved Sarah Parish as Lucrezia! The woman is perfect, OMG! 😍 The wives, in general, were too good for their husbands in both the seasons I watched so far. The mistresses can go choke, though, and I hated how much they tried to white-wash adultery all over the place. In addition to the poor writing, this show sent out some really gross messages and did nothing to call out all the misogynistic tripe.

I must exclude Simonetta from my mistress-hate because she died a horrible death, and frankly, other than that, there was not much there for me to perceive her as a real character anyway. I wanted to like her so much because I saw the gifs on Tumblr before actually watching the show, but the writers gave me absolutely nothing to work with and in the end, all I was left with was that she died all alone and with no help or comfort, sick, cold and thirsty, which is one of my big personal fears. The fact that the writers did this to her for no logical reason but to play up Sandro’s and Giuliano’s selfish man-pain - after I really did not buy either of them actually loving her - was just an additional disgusting layer on this poorly written story arc. She deserved better.

In conclusion, if it wasn’t for Bradley James being pretty, I would have quit this rubbish halfway through season 1 (if anyone is interested in reading just how much I hated it, you can find all my bile here). Season 2 was just as bad, but Bradley, Daniel and Matteo made intolerable characters bearable, which was something Richard Madden was unable to pull off. Of course, all my pure love goes to Contessina, Lucrezia and Clarice, because they were the only characters that I genuinely enjoyed in this mess and didn’t just put up with because I liked the people playing them.

#how hot is that character #medici #giuliano de medici #bradley james #medici review #my nonsense #i hate this entire show so very much #the cast deserved do much better #anonymous

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meinliiedarchived · 5 years

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So I’m gonna add Caterina de Medici to my muses soon and since there’s actually a fandom and she can interact with the fam, I have a lot of muse :D

here’s a short summary of her story in the novel (it’s sadly only available in german, so i can’t throw it at y’all), since i don’t have a bio yet:

Caterina’s mother, Simonetta Vespucci, died after her birth and Marco and his cousin Amerigo basically raised the child. But Caterina senses, that there’s a secret about her heritage. So at the age of 16 she walks into the Palazzo Medici to get an audience with Il Magnifico. After a long conversation it turns out Giuliano de Medici was her father and Caterina is eventually accepted into the family and moves to the palazzo. While adjusting to this new life, she falls in love with Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and becomes his student in the art of alchemy, as well as starting a very complex and difficult relationship with Cesare Borgia (that basically lasts, with breaks, until he has to leave Italy in 1504). Eventually on his deathbed Lorenzo reveals the truth, Caterina already felt in her heart: He’s her real father and once loved Simonetta too. He lets Caterina choose, wether she wants to claim her rights as his daughter or keep the secret and she decides to do the latter.

For me, nothing of this is set in stone. Especially when it comes to Lorenzo rpers or any other parties involved, I can imagine that they might not agree with this storyline. I’m totally up to discussing a different version and altering the plot, so both parties are satisfied! Like this and I’ll write you a starter (once I made icons) or come into your ims to plot!!<3

#medici rp #i'm honestly so exited for this!!!#also ask me questions about her tbh!!

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olatokunbo · 5 years

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What’s so special about the Mona Lisa? Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mounted artwork, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. To do so, they walk straight past countless masterpieces of the European Renaissance. So why does the Mona Lisa seem so special? The mystery of her identity Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, oil on poplar wood, c. 1503–06?, 77 x 33 cm, inv. 779. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Wikimedia. The story told by one of Leonardo’s first biographers, Giorgio Vasari, is that this oil portrait depicts Lisa Gherardini, second wife of a wealthy silk and wool merchant Francesco del Giocondo (hence the name by which it is known in Italian: La Gioconda). Leonardo likely commenced the work while in Florence in the early 1500s, perhaps when he was hoping to receive the commission to take on a massive wall painting of The Battle of Anghiari. Accepting a portrait commission from one of the city’s most influential, politically-engaged citizens might well have helped his chances. A recently discovered marginal note by Agostino Vespucci, one-time assistant to the diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, records that Leonardo was working on a painting of “Lisa del Giocondo” in 1503. Agostino Vespucci, Handwritten comment about the Mona Lisa in Cicero’s Epistolae ad familiares (Bologna 1477), Bl. 11a, held in Heidelberg, University Library, D 7620 qt. Heidelberg University The Italian painter Raphael, a great admirer of Leonardo, leaves us a sketch from around 1505-6 of what seems to be this work. When Leonardo later moved to France in 1516, he took this still unfinished work with him. However, art scholars have increasingly voiced doubts about whether the image in the Louvre can indeed be Vasari’s Lisa, for the style and techniques of the painting match far better Leonardo’s later work from 1510 onwards. Additionally, a visitor to Leonardo’s house in 1517 recorded seeing there a portrait of “a certain Florentine woman, done from life,” made “at the instance of the late magnificent Giuliano de Medici.” Medici was Leonardo’s patron in Rome from 1513 to 1516. Was our visitor looking at the same image Vasari and our marginal diarist describe as Lisa, or another portrait of a different woman, commissioned later? All in all, just who we are seeing in the Louvre remains one of the work’s many mysteries. A portrait stripped bare In comparison to many contemporary images of the elite, this portrait is stripped of the usual trappings of high status or symbolic hints to the sitter’s dynastic heritage. All attention is thus drawn to her face, and that enigmatic expression. Before the 18th century, emotion was more commonly articulated in painting through gestures of the hand and body than the face. But in any case, depictions of individuals did not aim to convey the same kinds of emotions we might look for in a portrait photograph today — think courage or humility rather than joy or happiness. Additionally, a hallmark of elite status was one’s ability to keep the passions under good regulation. Irrespective of dental hygiene standards, a broad smile in artworks thus generally indicated ill-breeding or mockery, as we see in Leonardo’s own study of Five Grotesque Heads. Leonardo da Vinci, Grotesque Heads, c. 1490s, pen, Royal Library, Windsor. Wikimedia Our modern ideas about emotions leave us wondering just what Mona Lisa might have been feeling or thinking much more than the work’s early modern viewers likely did. A 20th century phenomenon In fact, there is a real question as to whether anyone before the 20th century thought much about the Mona Lisa at all. The historian Donald Sassoon has argued that much of the painting’s modern global iconic status rests on its widespread reproduction and use in all manner of advertising. This notoriety was “helped” by its theft in 1911 by former Louvre employee, Vincenzo Peruggia. He remarkably walked out of the museum one evening after closing time with the painting wrapped in his smock coat. He spent the next two years with it hidden in his lodgings.

#monalisa #painting #louvre

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giulianodeimedici-blog · 5 years

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Another unpopular opinion for @venusdefirenze

… featuring my absolute nr. 1 pet peeve: self insert fics!

Come on guys, that was the only acceptable icon for this. Let me tell ya’ll a story: once every week I am followed by a personal blog that belongs to a horny fanfic writer, and every week I sigh and cast my gaze up at the sky. I soft block them and move on with my life, but that doesn’t mean they don’t annoy me. Look, it’s partly just basic role-play etiquette. I don’t write so you can get your rocks off, so get away from me with your personals. Go and read 50 shades of Gray.

And you know, I could deal with the personals if it was just interest. But no, they are always self insert writers. “Imagine Giuliano coming to your window late at night” to “imagine Giuliano jousting with Francesco over you” to “imagine both Medici brothers spit roast you in the Duomo”. Like seriously? I mean, you do you, but if I were to have those weird arse fantasies I’d keep them under lock and key, to myself, and I certainly wouldn’t bother role-players with it. We are not your pornhub.

Then there’s the self-insert with actors. Which is worse. I am not going to go into it, but I hope you understand writing porn featuring A HUMAN BEING that you are doing something morally not even ambiguous but rather weird and de-humanizing. We do not own the actors that portray roles, no matter how handsome they are.

#venusdefirenze #⚜ || ANSWERED ASK. conscience doth make cowards of us all

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archeryicons · 3 years

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