




Bianca
2020 calendar page: 8/12, art for the month of July 🖤
I’ve heard some people complaining that there is not enough Bianca content in the fandom ;) I wholeheartedly agree!
*inspired by Frank Cadogan Cowper, Botticelli, Pedro Campana and Holliday Grainger
BIANCA SOLDERINI - the murderous courtesan, Marius & Amadeo’s lover
They took me to the home of the slender and beautiful courtesan, Bianca Solderini, a lithesome and incomparable charmer, with Botticelli-style wavy locks and almond shaped gray eyes and a generous and kindly wit. I was the fashion in her house whenever I wanted to be, among the young women and men there who spent hours reading poetry, talking of the foreign wars, which seemed endless, and of the latest painters and who would get what commission next.
Bianca had a small, childlike voice which matched her girlish face and tiny nose. Her mouth was a mere budding rose. But she was clever, and indomitable. She turned away possessive lovers coldly; she preferred that her house be full of people at all hours. Anyone in proper dress, or carrying a sword, was admitted automatically.
Almost no one but those who wanted to own her were ever turned away.

- Bianca (from ‘The Vampire Armand’ - The Vampire Chronicles) ~ sketch
“Pretty Bianca, what makes you say this, that I’m his lover?”
“Everyone knows it”, she whispered.
“You are his favorite. Do you think you’ve made him angry?”
“Oh, if only I could,” […]

La Perla di Venezia by SweetLittleVampire
Bianca Solderini, the Pearl of Venice.
No idea what suddenly possessed me to draw her - I just kind of wated to, so I did. I recall that I really liked her back when I first read The Vampire Armand (which I desperately need to reread). And I´ve always been a sucker for Renaissance Venice.
Bianca Solderini / The Vampire Chronicles © Anne Rice
http://sweetlittlevampire.tumblr.com/

Another old one I made as a fanart for Vampire Chronicles fandom. Not very good quality, I guess… Although it was a great challange for me in the past :) Miss the times when I had enough patience for such backgrounds.

- Bianca Solderini ~ for everlastingporcelain
I promised her a colored drawing as she is portraited in our “venetian ball“ rp-thread (and as a kind of excuse for my lack of writing skill… :c)
I love Bianca so much!
But I have the suspicion a failed the dress’ style/epoch. *coughcough*