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fata-vocant · 5 months
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medieval backstreet boys: you are… my friar
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tygerland · 1 month
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Heath Ledger - May 2000 - by Bruce Weber.
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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 months
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Castles - art by Alan Lee (1984)
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road-kill-eater · 3 months
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detailedart · 1 year
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We offer a wide range of monster problems. Details: the Fall of the Damned, c. 1468, by Dirk Bouts. More about this painting here
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adderstones · 2 months
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Lady Olwen and the Unicorn
Some Deep thoughts I was having while painting this piece below:
Unicorns in medieval art sometimes represented the chastity and purity women were expected to maintain, but also the game of courty love. In order to slay a unicorn, a maiden was to sit out and wait for the creature to find her, then the hunter nearby would strike. Obviously this is just an allegory for sex and the loss of virginity from a deeply patriarchal society. It also illustrated the expectation of women's roles in courtly love in the period.
It reminds me of the purity culture I grew up in, to be honest. I heard stories like this, cautionary tales that growing up and becoming a woman was like the violent killing of a sacred creature. The point of this piece became very therapeutic for me, and served more to heal something that had been hurt a long time ago.
I've also been in love with the Unicorn Tapestries since I was a teenager I wanted to draw a woman surrounded and protected by these motifs. Obviously she's not a virgin, but she is still deemed worthy of a visit from a unicorn.
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peacefulandcozy · 8 months
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Instagram credit: elie.simplehappiness
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illustratus · 2 months
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Undine by Arthur Rackham
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gailyinthedark · 4 months
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Two simply beautiful turns of phrase from The Tale of King Arthur:
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And one that made me choke because I accidentally read it as horrible memes:
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(Maims, it's maims)
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spoon-cca · 5 months
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ok so umm HII trollhunters nation… if theres still any hammerhunters out there…. i actually have these au drawings thats been sitting around for YEARS that ive never shared from 2021….these were ALL fueled from these tags from a gifset by @miirabel
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and me and @willbdeactivatingsoon went insane tgt and ran off with it and came up with a whole bunch of story ideas and doodles, augh what fun times ;v;!! hope you enjoy these🥰
and a bonus:
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nothingbizzare · 9 months
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Ones upon a time was a Prince and a Knight ...
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paontaure · 1 year
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“A Plague Tale : Requiem”, original art in graphite, ink and watercolor.
2023 © Paontaure
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ivqks159 · 2 years
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my entry for @hermithorrors zine!! I had a lot of fun drawing this piece, thanks for having me :D
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measureyourlifeincake · 3 months
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my stp brainrot has combined with my casual interest in historical dress youtube and I decided to draw the Princess in a more historically-inspired outfit than her original design
If anyone's curious, her outfit/hairstyle is supposed to be from around 1828 ("around" bc my main reference/inspiration was definitely from 1828 but I had so many tabs open with different inspo images from nearby years and I don't remember which ones I actually used. also did you know it is surprisingly difficult to search for royal portraiture from a specific year) because based on some cursory googling, it seemed a lot of the elements of her canon base dress (off-the-shoulder, sweetheart neckline, poofy sleeves, straight waistline around the natural waist, skirt that isn't super full/poofy) seemed historically plausible for that time period
I also drew her hair in a more historically-accurate style for the period (but don't ask me exactly what's going on there because I'm not entirely sure myself) but I kept her canon tiara because it seemed plausible enough. anyway this was really fun to do!!!
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shy-raccoon · 4 months
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Person A is a commoner locked in a tower. Who has no hope they will ever be rescued because they don't have the land, money, or status to be worth rescuing.
Person B is one of the few truly good knights who applies the code of chivalry to more than just the nobility.
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henryfitzempress · 9 months
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Lancelot Du Lac in a French manuscript. [c.1310-1315]
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