aut caesar, aut nihil

"you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath"

[annesidora]

make me choose meme:handanvalidesultan asked:Madame de Pompadour or Madame du Barry

“Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.” ― Nancy Mitford, Madame de Pompadour

[targaryensource]

House Targaryen Meme ↳[½] Mothers - Rhaella Targaryen

Mother to Rhaegar, Shaena, Daeron, Aegon, Jaehaerys, Viserys & Daenerys Targareyn.

[floralls]

by  boutierre_girls

[maisonmartins]

Chanel Haute Couture F/W 2010.

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but there is one glaring omission, father. there is? go over it again. my mother.

[beautysonfire]

[runwayandbeauty]

Black & White Details - Yanina Couture Spring 2016.

[fhosdfoisdhfodsi-deactivated202]

modern character aesthetic → cesare borgia cigarettes on street corners in the middle of the night // bloody teeth and bloody knuckles // tattoos hidden under dress shirt sleeves // head bowed to a father and hidden fingers crossed // sinning with a sister at witching hour

[annesidora]

make me choose: anonymous asked: Napoleon I or Marie Antoinette

“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”

[vitruvians]

Excerpt from a letter from Marie Antoinette to the Duchesse de Polignac

Adieu, dear heart, nothing but death can make me cease to love you

[cyberwave]

[loumargi]

William Blake Richmond-Venus and Anchises

[abigailcowen]

anne boleyn + dresses → (s02e09)

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[curties]

[vannozza-deactivated20170918]

Lucretia by Joos Van Cleave, 1525. (detail)

[antigonick]

ELEKTRA : I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

Sophokles, Elektra (tr. by Anne Carson)

[lochiels-deactivated20180429]

The last Plantagenet king was born at one of his mother’s favourite residences, Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire, the fourth and youngest son of his family. He was named after his father, Richard, Duke of York, Henry VI’s challenger for the throne, and took after him physically – short and dark. His older brothers were Edward, who was ten, Edmund, nine, and George, four. Descended on both sides from Edward III, they were born into a desperately dangerous world and only the eldest would meet a natural death. The reigning king, Henry VI, was weak, inept and not quite right in the head, and Richard was still a baby when a battle at St Albans in 1455 ushered in the Wars of the Roses, thirty years of sporadic civil war between the houses of Lancaster and York which would end only with his own death in battle at Bosworth Field. Richard would have been trained in arms, hunting and hawking, dancing and courtesy. He grew into a capable soldier and administrator, and he remained staunchly loyal to Edward IV. [x]