#beheaded
Ik I’m a day late but Happy Halloween everyone ☠️♀️⚰️
The Normans: In this major series, Professor Robert Bartlett examines the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of the Normans, and shows how they transformed the history of Europe.
Battle of Baginbun (Battle of Dundonnell) - May 1170, County Wexford - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force.
Alice of Abervenny
Of the Irish there were taken
Quite as many as seventy.
But the noble knights
Had them beheaded.
To a wench they gave
An axe of tempered steel,
And she beheaded them all
And threw their bodies over the cliff,
Because she had that day
Lost her lover in the combat.
Alice of Abergavenny was her name
Who served the Irish thus.
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on canvas, 246 x 297 cm. National Gallery
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Lady Jane Grey reigned for just nine days as Queen of England following the death of Edward VI in 1553: she was deposed by the faction supporting Edward’s half-sister and heir, Mary Tudor. Tried for treason, the 17-year-old Lady Jane was beheaded at Tower Hill on 12 February 1554.
Delaroche shows the final moments of the blindfolded Lady Jane as she pleads, ‘What shall I do? Where is the block?’ She is being guided towards it by Sir John Brydges, Lieutenant of the Tower. Her outer clothing has already been removed and is gathered in the lap of a lady-in-waiting, who has slumped to the ground. Behind her, a second lady-in-waiting stands facing the wall, unable to watch. To the right, the executioner stands waiting. Using a shallow stage-like space, theatrical lighting and life-size figures, Delaroche plays up the spectacle of the innocent young victim on the brink of martyrdom, compelling us to react to the scene before us.
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Long time that I did not draw HotK
Again an excuse ! >P
The sketches were made on the other tablet too XP
(Can’t wait to master it and CPS completely ! )
These are not the only ones I made either, there are these XP
An excuse to draw Blooby too >P
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