BROKEN CROWN: renaissance, medieval, and high fantasy aesthetic

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) dir. Franco Zeffirelli

Crowns were perhaps the strongest signifiers of nobility, especially royalty, and so they were extremely lavish and intricate and were made of the most precious metals and jewels. Crowns and coronets weren’t particularly restricted to royalty at this time, with noble ladies wearing coronets or mini-crowns as part of their formal dress. They were sometimes set with jewels but were not as ornate as those used for coronations or of the royal household. Women soon adopted them to wear over their veils. Precious and semiprecious stones and enamel were widely used. [x] [x]

They will blame her if it rains …or if the rains fail.

Our Favorites: [Day 10/24] Anastasia’s Favorite Race (The Hobbit) ↳ Elves

Our Favorites: [Day 10/24] Elise’s Favorite Race (The Hobbit) ↳ Elves

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

Elizabeth Woodville | 1x04 - The Bad Queen + hair porn

Our Favorites: [Day 07/24] Anastasia’s Favorite Couple (Lord of the Rings) ↳ Aragorn and Arwen 

You like death? Then let me give it to you!

Elizabeth of York & Henry VII

God Speed! (details), by Edmund Blair Leighton 

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∙ All for our vantage. Then, in God’s name, march: True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

Una and the Red Cross Knight, 1860, George Frederick Watts

Isabel & Fernando

Period Drama Fashion (37/?): Anne of Cleves, The Queen of England in The Tudors | Part 02/02