by history we are made

ADELAIDE KANE as MARY STUART ↴ Higher Ground ( 1.20 )

Galatea (1847) by Charles Jalabert

My friend, if all ambassadors were beautiful women, I’d be serving my country day and night. Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon in The Tudors (2007–2010)

I am iron. A little rusted, perhaps, but still I endure. (insp.)

Now, where were we when we were so rudely interrupted?

Archibald Motley (American, 1891-1981) - Portrait of My Grandmother (1922)

The Light Within by Karl J. Kuerner, 1996

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

// requested by @mim009

Nope. Fat people have always been here, aren’t going anywhere, and have always been beautiful and worthy of respect.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Catherine Howard's golden dress in The Tudors 4x04

CATE BLANCHETT as Queen Elizabeth I ELIZABETH (1998) dir. Shekhar Kapur

The Tudors 2.07

LOUIS CUNNINGHAM as LOUIS XVI and OSCAR LESAGE as CHARTRES MARIE ANTOINETTE (2022) // 2.03 Treacherous Legacy

Stunning Looks in Magnificent Century: 6/∞