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Which empire had the coolest aesthetic? I like Byzantium
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EL IMPERIO CATÓLICO DE LA MONARQUÍA HISPÁNICA EN EL SIGLO XVII, FINALES DEL XVI, Y PRINCIPIOS DE EL XVIII (BARROCO, FINALES DE EL RENACIMIENTO, Y JUSTO ANTES DE EL ROCOCÓ).
EL BARROCO HISPÁNICO FUE EL EPÍTOME DE LA CIVILIZACIÓN EN SENTIDO UNIVERSAL; TODO HA SIDO REMEDO, O PÁLIDO REFLEJO, DESDE ENTONCES.
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Byzantine, Russian, Tang and Song dynasty.
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The Aztec
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>>18432817
I decided not to drool over the Aztec empire in this thread because I felt I had been doing too much of that lately, but now that you've already brought it up, yeah. Super underrated.
VGH
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Victorian Britain. So cool Japan uses it as royal attire to this day.
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>>18432891
Nah it was utter kino
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>>18432817
>The Aztec
Imagine the smell.
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>>18433262
The temples apparently stunk of blood, but the rest of Mesoamerican cities were very clean
Also while some of Pierre Joubert's art is somewhat accurate, that specific piece isn't: The clothing is a mix of cultures and nonsense elements alongside some authentic ones, and the buildings lack paint and plaster
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>>18433631
>Saying bro unironically
>Proceeds to make the most ignorant/retarded post imaginable
Pottery
British victorian aesthetics are still seen as the gold standard. The suit was popularised in Victorian Britain and the idea of the gentlemen as a model of the civilised man still perstists even now
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>>18432835
Thread pretty much
Despite the fact that Victorian aesthetics are still so influential today I find it odd how unappreciated it is in the wider scheme of things
It was a period that obsessed and celebrated beauty more than any other, had a greater apprieciation of history and culture than any other time and had the material wealth to back it up and create architectual, artistic and fashions which rival any period. Although I personally would say the Edwardian period is the great crystalisation of all these things
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>>18433734
What does that mean in this context?
Are you accusing the reconstructions of not being accurate? If so then here's 80+ photos of ruins and archeological maps showing that the architectural style in those reconstructions matches Aztec and Teotihuacano structures:
https://pastebin.com/MsiYXN3L
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>>18433771
I don't know why people keep saying this. The stairs of the great temple were famously bloody but otherwise it was one of the most cleanliness obsessed cultures on the entire planet, they bathed like 4 times a day and had a giant government funded network of highly respected public sanitation workers. The Spaniards who visited all remarked on how spectacularly clean everything was compared to cities in Europe
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>>18432817
So awesome!
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>>18433777
>All the Conquistadors talk about their cities being extremely clean
>>18433778
>The Spaniards who visited all remarked on how spectacularly clean everything was compared to cities in Europe
Not an high bar considering how filthy European capitals were at the time.
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>>18433810
I mean, they mostly didn't