I hope you enjoy the video! I had a lot of fun making it. I've wanted to create this video for a long time (in fact, the introduction had been written since 2021😅). Anyway, I hope you like it! Leave a comment about what impressed you the most about the guardainfante. 😋
It's a lovely video, but I'd make an acclaration about the black colour in spanish court. Black was not only seen as a colour of seriousness or religious zeal as you point (the original intention of Philip II was clearly to make a counter-attack to the excess of rennaissance-barroque fashion from out of Spain), but it became a sign of direct power and richness. The "Negro ala de cuervo" or " crow wing's black" was a black-blue-ish hue tint from a plant called palo campeche, an american variety grown in Mexico and Brazil, it was also a colour which didn't fade away when washing clothes, this both made it a very expensive colour, and as tyrian purple or carmine red, could cost it's weight in gold. It meant the tint had traveled six months from the americas and the wearer had enough money and power to pay for it.
You're welcome! Absolutely, the color black has been associated with luxury and power since the late Middle Ages, mainly because it was so difficult and expensive to dye fabric in a deep, lasting, and brilliant black. I talk about this in my video about Spanish fashion in the 16th century.
I do replica hand goldwork gowns using real gold and silver threads. I'm amazed at how they react in low light levels -- someone needs to do a video about these garments evolving with the lighting of the period. Even in the lowest light levels the patterns catch whatever available light and show the pattern making the wearer easily identifiable.
Nowadays in Spain it's more of a grandma name, but yes, a lot of names with Christian origin are very cool. We also have the surname moorskiller and jewskiller XD
I hope you enjoy the video! I had a lot of fun making it. I've wanted to create this video for a long time (in fact, the introduction had been written since 2021😅).
Anyway, I hope you like it!
Leave a comment about what impressed you the most about the guardainfante. 😋
It's a lovely video, but I'd make an acclaration about the black colour in spanish court. Black was not only seen as a colour of seriousness or religious zeal as you point (the original intention of Philip II was clearly to make a counter-attack to the excess of rennaissance-barroque fashion from out of Spain), but it became a sign of direct power and richness. The "Negro ala de cuervo" or " crow wing's black" was a black-blue-ish hue tint from a plant called palo campeche, an american variety grown in Mexico and Brazil, it was also a colour which didn't fade away when washing clothes, this both made it a very expensive colour, and as tyrian purple or carmine red, could cost it's weight in gold. It meant the tint had traveled six months from the americas and the wearer had enough money and power to pay for it.
I love a history lesson, especially in detail.
You're welcome!
Absolutely, the color black has been associated with luxury and power since the late Middle Ages, mainly because it was so difficult and expensive to dye fabric in a deep, lasting, and brilliant black. I talk about this in my video about Spanish fashion in the 16th century.
I do replica hand goldwork gowns using real gold and silver threads. I'm amazed at how they react in low light levels -- someone needs to do a video about these garments evolving with the lighting of the period. Even in the lowest light levels the patterns catch whatever available light and show the pattern making the wearer easily identifiable.
there's so much history and meaning behind the guardainfante, i never knew!
thank you so much for this video
my fav clothing piece of 17th century spanish fashion
There is nothing more Baroque than a guardainfante!
Super fascinating,
Muito interessante
this is why i love your channel the attention to detail is insane 💫💫💫
Thank you! What a pleasure it was to watch this video.
Excelente vídeo.
Muito bom o vídeo
this was so interesting 🤗
I don't know if it's common with other paintings, but "las meninas" are sold as dolls and figurines too.
I have Mariana de Austria.🤗
The girls from Las Meninas are nowadays a sort of mascot for the city of Madrid.
Maria de la Encarnación sounds like a badass 😈
right!!!
Nowadays in Spain it's more of a grandma name, but yes, a lot of names with Christian origin are very cool.
We also have the surname moorskiller and jewskiller XD
fascinating
Love the video and this would be a great drinking game every time he says guardainfante I'm going to drink
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Lord, thank you for being born in the era of tee shirts, blue jeans and cowboy boots!