That’s why there are no more Tudors..................;^)
I clinked on the link thinking it was about one of my favorite white fish.
Shouldn’t they be called “troutpieces” instead?
What the heck is “twice as small”? Is that an idiot’s way of saying half as large?
“Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is,
How giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between
Fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them
Like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime
Like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime
Like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten
Tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
Half the size, one fourth the size...well one of those..
BTW is this item of clothing like stuffing a bra ???
:)
And her loyal research assistant, Harry Merkin.
I don’t remember how the topic came up, but a few months ago my girlfriend and I were wondering if anyone still manufactures codpieces. I don’t think they have them at Sears or J.C. Penney. :-)
If ya got it, flaunt it. Just don’t step on it.
‘Twice as small’??? Pet peeve of mine: multiplication is for positive results; wouldn’t it be ‘one half the size of’? Just wondering
It just goes to show you the liberal rewrite of history. It their best effort to tell about what they do not understand.
The first time she saw a man nude,
Said a diffident young lady named Wood:
.. “I’m glad I’m the sex
.. That’s concave, not convex
For I don’t fancy things that protrude.”
Next time they do this they need to contact an expert. Gene has 40 plus years of experience wearing the proper size codpiece...
I only watch the show, because there are no more ‘Foyle’s War’, ‘Inspector Gently’, ‘DCI Banks’ is a joke reminiscent of the affair side of ‘Hill Street Blues’, and on ‘Death in Paradise’ they killed off the more likeable stuck-in-the-boonies-city-denizen-cop.
PBS wants $30.00 for the DVD ... no thanks. Since PBS has such a wonderful standing with the Demo, er, Communist Party, i won’t be sending them any money soon.
Edmond Blackadder's "Black Russian"
For one thing, in the article, they compared and contrasted a picture of Henry VIII from the series Wolf Hall compared to a Renaissance portrait, inferring that the latter would have been what Henry would have actually worn.
However the picture of the man with the rather prominent codpiece was not of Henry VIII but a portrait of an Italian man of unknown origins named Antonio Navagero – 1565.
http://european-art.findthedata.com/l/19963/Portrait-of-Antonio-Navagero
Of all the paintings of Henry VIII painted during his lifetime, I’ve not found one to portray him as wearing such a huge codpiece as this “historian” would suggest as being “accurate” for the time. One also has to consider that some portraits of the time tended to exaggerate certain desirable male features or even play down, especially in the portraits of women, their attractiveness in exchange for a more “pious” and serious appearance.
Also it should be understood that English and Italian and French fashions of the time, even among the Royals and the moneyed class who could afford to have portraits painted of themselves, were not all the same. IIRC, one of the many criticisms levied against Anne Boleyn during her brief reign as Queen was her fondness of French fashions and of all things “French”.
Second, they criticized the casting of the actress portraying Jane Seymour as being “too pretty” because she didn’t look exactly like the portrait painted by Hans Holbein. But I think looking at the pictures of the actress and the Holbein painting, I’d say the casting was pretty good. Is Kate Phillips “prettier” than Jane Seymour was? Perhaps, but given that Holbein was commissioned by Henry to paint a portrait of Anne of Cleves before agreeing to marry her, it has been alleged, perhaps falsely, that upon meeting her in person for the first time, that Henry was greatly disappointed because she was not nearly as attractive as her portrait.
However it was probably or at least just as much a matter of changes in the political landscape and second thoughts about aligning with the German Protestants, who were in actuality, much more radical in their religious reformations than what Henry was comfortable with; even with his break from Rome, he was not necessarily a great “reformer” in religious terms, but more interested in exercising his “rights” as sovereign King over matters he thought were not to be decided by the Pope.
There were also questions surrounding Anne of Cleves previous marriage commitment, whether in Henry’s eyes, that meant she was as good as being an already married woman. But whatever the reasons, her lack of beauty, politics or religion, evidently Henry was not able or willing to consummate his marriage to Anne of Cleves and in her own best interests, she agreed to a divorce and relegation to being the King’s “sister” and given some property and a stipend on which to live out her years, and in this she fared better than most of Henry’s 6 wives.
http://www.oocities.org/tudorhist/tudor.htm
As to the codpieces, here is another “view” as it were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqeraa_96BE
And costume design: