fled is that music

"do i wake or sleep?" june. a woman taken by the wind. venus but bloody.

[medievalpoc]

I've been through your 1500s tag and not found what I needed, so I'm hoping you can point me in the direction of something I've missed. Have you come across any contemporary images of WOC from the 16th cen in middling class -> aristocratic dress? England/France preferably, but I'll take anything you've got! This powerpoint of mine desperately needs some variety on the female side.

Hmmm. I might not have exactly what you’re looking for, but i’ll do my best.

*rubs hands together*

Women of Color!!!! 1500s or as close as possible!!!! European!!! Fancy-Looking Ladies Only!!!! Aaaaand….GO!

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More info at the links. I hope that helps?

[marykayultra]

I love this post so much…I’m actually crying a little bit. This is literally the very first time I am seeing women who look like me in art I *wish* I could have studied in art school. I am currently in debt from pursuing a degree that is largely indifferent to the history of my people, especially our women. Instead of memorizing and writing essays discussing the same images of the same white people over and over again why couldn’t we have learned about these beautiful renderings? I feel largely betrayed but inspired.

I am so excited to research these works independently and share what I learn with other POCs of all ages. Especially the young ones. I may start teaching again because of this post. This very well may have been just the spark I need to start some bitchin’ fires.

[partytights]

[twirld]

Psyche at the Throne of Venus (1883) Edward Matthew Hale

[signorformica]

Detail of the Roman Sonnengott und Tierkreiszeichen Mosaik (Sun God and Zodiac Mosaic), mid-3rd century AD.  Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

[abystle]

The Frailty of Human Life, Salvator Rosa, 1656

[abystle]

Painted the same year his brother, son, nephews and nieces were all carried off by the plague that ravaged Naples.

In this piece, Fortuna, a young woman with flowers in her hair, sits on a glass sphere holding a baby. Though this appears to be a religious painting, with poses that echo a Madonna and Child, it is but a memento mori, laced with symbols of the brevity of life. Two putti blow bubbles and burn straw, both representing the ephemeral, and a winged skeleton guides the infant’s hand as he writes, “Conception, sinful; birth, a punishment; life, hard labour; death, inevitable.”

[twirld]

Vanitas Still Life (detail) Aelbert Jansz. van der Schoor

[the-healing-nest]

“There is a voice inside of you, that whispers all day long, ‘I feel that this is right for me, I know that this is wrong.’ No teacher, preacher, parent, friend or wise man can decide what’s right for you— Just listen to the voice that speaks inside.”

— Shel Silverstein

[furfantasies-deactivated2012010]

[honeyandpluto]

cross-stained:

Alexander McQueen Spring 2007 Ready to Wear Model: Tanya Dziahileva

[briarandauburn]

Nuvonu

[liquial]

[modelsof-color]

Wayne Booth by Luke Paige for T Magazine - Dec 2018.

[siryl]

“Birds of a Feather,” an eerie acrylic painting by Aaron Jasinski.

[detailedart]

Detail: Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1850, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

[dadalux]

Laura Makabresku - Vigil

[expressions-of-nature]

[coffeeandmoorland]

Just the bedroom of your local witch 🔮

[voirlvmer]

“We talk so much of  light, please let me speak on behalf of  the good dark. Let us talk more of how dark the beginning of a day is.”

— Maggie Smith, from “How Dark the Beginning”