Historical Disney Warrior Princess - Rapunzel

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10^th installment of the series - Rapunzel

When and Where?

Rapunzel was a real challenge because the movie really can’t be dated to any specific time period – it is the only Disney movie that I believe was set in no specific time period. I know the concept art was from an 18^th century painting, but to be honest nothing in the movie matches the 18^th century. Well maybe the architecture, then again the clothing looks medieval for some characters, Tudor-Style for others and some are dresses like barbarians or ancient Germans, the guards however are dressed like mid-19^th century cavalry. So I needed a way to combine all these elements… adding the fact that the story was of German origin I had an Idea. I call it: What 19^th century Germans imagined early Germans in medieval epics looked like.

Commentary

So the outfit of Rapunzel here was inspired by several 19^th century illustration especially from operas be Richard Wagner. Additionally I was thinking about the 19^th Century German art movement of Romanticism which had a strong tie to the middle ages.