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Copia as Papa: the blue papal ensemble first thoughts
I won’t beat about the bush: I’m convinced the color is important. We’re used to Popes in black (yeah PE1 wore white, but can’t we agree it’s not that surprising?) and now we have this strange bird showing off. So much can be said about this color! Let me add “few” things which, to me, seem accurate or would have personnaly inspired me in the choice of this color, based on the middle age, plague-ish and Renaissance theme following Copia so far:
First of all, starting from the XIIth century blue is a new, trending color, symbol of wealthyness and aristocracy. Deep and vivide tons are the most expensive. It’s said blue colors used to be more expensive than those using gold powder.
During the XIIth century, blue already tended to replace black even in the funeral rite and religious objects.
Catholics didn’t accepted the use of blue that easily. Wearing blue was considered as a surge of pride. Actually, they didn’t really care about what people wore but still, it was unworthy of a good Christian. It was a true moral fight opposing the big bad blue of the nobles and Protestants to the imperious red and discreet black of the Christianity.
Copia as a Cardinal often wore red and black, traditional colors, and seemed a little bit clumsy and oopsy oops sorry Nihil aha ‘living now byebye~. Now he’s in blue and he’s the new Pope and he’s like eh there can be only 1 Pope, shoo~! Mere coincidences, most certainly, but I wanted to highlight this.
After the Black Plague strucked Europe, wearing blue wasn’t well seen. First, because it’s expensive to produce and european countries are ruined. So decreats were made to stop this hunger for luxurious textile goods. Secondo, ethic: to keep a christian tradition of modesty and righteousness. Young people and women were targeted and repression on innovative ideas were made bc they were “disturbing the established order and moral”. Finally, ideology: a need to initiate segregation between classes and genders. To maintain strong barriers and avoid mixes between classes is a priority and the outfit -the complexity + color- is the first sign of social classification. To break these borders, it’s to break the order desired by God, which is both dangerous (boooo fear the return of the plague!) and sacrilagious.
About the Holy Mary™ (bc I saw posts about that and I know some of you are just joking around and it’s 100% okay! I’m adding that for those who may want/need more infos). Blue started to be associated to Mary during the XIIIth century, and let’s be honest, the most noticeable symbolism in that is they used an expensive pigment to depict Mary bc she is a very important biblical figure. Blue wasn’t that valorised symbolicaly speaking at the time, it was too early, not trending enough yet.
So according to me, here Copia is basically showing off all his pride to the eyes of the world and most certainly his will to be a great leader, while sticking with this idea of “death” surrounding him since he first appeared. He’s totally breaking the habits established so far (it already started with Prequelle released. I meaaaan….!!!).
(For the most curious soul: read the book Blue-The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau. Good shit, well written and documented!)
If I can easily speculate on the color and complexity of his ensemble, when it comes to the embroidery I admit I don’t have brain Brig enough lol. However, I instinctively want to shout: “I see astronomy mixed to alchemy here, all followed by Baroque like arabesque, aaaah!!”, but I wonder: what’s going on here?
The first thing I spotted is the G ending on a star, as if it’s pointing at it, wanting us to look at it closely. Indeed, it guide our eyes to it. Is there a comparison to do with Ursa Major and the North star? I’m kinda confused bc of its look. The symetrical shapes makes sens with the whole aesthetic of the outfit, but the G doesnt look like anything else on this ensemble. Everything is full of arabesque or fine lines, and here we have a thick sharp shaped G (and is it silver or blue? I wanna see HD close ups! ;;). Don’t get me wrong, I think it looks super cool! I’m simply confused because I feel like I’m missing the point here. I’m curious to see what you think about it! (EDIT rightafterpostingthis: Wait, constellation ! I’m stupid aha, it’s a constallation.)
We also have this:
I instinctively see cardinal points and the compass rose. Very important when you observe the sky. Again, with the G pointing at the star, this symbol bring the notion of direction, discovery, travel, guiding us/ourself. It’s a tool meant to help us… And the G is centered. But let’s not speculate more than necessary, it’s a bit too early for that.
Alchemy, the Heptagrams :
I don’t know much about them tbh. It’s some good alchemy stuff, about universe and perfection, and it’s also used in occultism/paganism, and catholicism (7 days of the creations + protection against… the evil?).
About the stones. Lot of blue ones apparently. Let’s say it’s meant to be saphirres: stones use to make amulet for travellers, protection against the plague and various nervous illness and such. Note that “saphirre” also refered to “lazulis” during Renaissance(people were confusing them. Both blue stone, can’t blame them). Another reason why blue is such an important color here! Fun fact: saphirre also symbolize honesty, fidelity and truth.
Overall, the ensemble looks like a mystic map of the sky and I just love it! These notions also go along with my idea that Copia’s character development is bases on Middle Age/Renaissance humanism and opening of minds toward the world, letting go of old beliefs. I mostly linked it with astronomy and alchemy, with historical/social bacground, but I’m pretty sure people into astrology and paganism will surely have a lot to say as well! Let’s see what others interpretations you’ll come with… And what Tobias actually has in mind!
Damn OP this is absolutely fascinating 10/10 Lore Thoughts
So here’s a nice little interview with Tobias where he talks about Copia, changing characters, the three times Papa III fell, a common nightmare, horror movies with his kids and horror movies in general. The volume is pretty low, so I’ve typed everything out below the read more!
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For all of the wonderful and encouraging comments on my Copia glass panel. You guys are all so amazing and sweet, you’ve inspired me to keep on going despite the problems and finish the panel. I started getting the first side soldered up, and hoo boy is this thing a beast. He’s around 16x22" (40x55cm ish) and is 3 or 4 times larger than my previous largest panel and going to take a toooon of solder.
I still have a lot of work on my soldering, but it’s working out pretty alright so far. I can’t wait to get him all soldered and see how he looks with light going through.
(the darker lines are just where the flux discolored the solder, which I’m not sure if that means there’s an issue or not, but I will be putting a black patina on it to make the bright silvery solder a dark, rustic black color)
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i can’t find the ref i used for the left picture but i need everyone to see dew(? i’m not 100% sure) holding a bouquet of IKEA rats
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THIS IS BRILLIANT
By consciousgary
today, just before ghost's gig at globen, gregorio allegri's miserere was playing during the wait and i was totally floored because it seemed like such a well thought-out song to set the tone for the evening!!
miserere is a choir composition from the 1600s that was originally performed at the catholic tenebrae (latin for "darkness") services in the sistine chapel, held on three days preceding easter. for a time, the piece was only allowed to be performed at those specific services in the sistine chapel and transcribing the music was strictly forbidden, which added to an air of mystery surrounding the song.
the tenebrae service itself is also shrouded in mystery by its nature – during the ritual, 15 candles are extinguished one by one until only one candle remains but is then hidden, ultimately ending the service in total darkness.
to me, it seems that what they want to convey by playing such a song before the gig is that as tenebrae draws to a close in total darkness and shrouded in mystery, an even darker ritual begins...