Fic and Art- The Artist and the Engineer (1/1)

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Title: The Artist and the Engineer
Author/Artist: msteelgrave
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Tony
Word Count: ~2,300
Universe: 616-based Renaissance AU
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None that I'm aware of. History geek at work?
Beta: kaitou1412
Summary: Civil engineer Antonio de Medici gains new respect for the visual arts.
A/N: Finally crossposting this! Written a while ago to fulfill an AU drabble request by kaitou1412, who was a tremendous help to me as far as period detail and general encouragement are concerned.

This takes place in Florence before Cosimo I de Medici was Duke of Florence, so sometime in the 1520s. Da Vinci died in 1519. I have no idea if they had civil engineers at all then, let alone ones devoted to a city-state like Florence. I've substituted some cognate names. Antonio is obviously Tony, Stephen uses the older English spelling of the name, and Giannetta (Gia) for Janet. Henry Pym is just about as English as you can get. It's difficult to walk the line between authenticity and fangirl Japanese, so I hope the names don't get in the way of the story. Apologies if I've butchered any Italian words or names.

Please, please alert me if you see fail.

Antonio stood in his parlor in full armor, cursing whoever decided that armor was the requisite attire for the subject of a formal portrait.

Comments

[americanaviator.livejournal.com]

o-oh. oh, my god.

please, please, please write more of this... D: i don't have words for how much i utterly adore this story. everything. perfect.
i'm a huge fan of the renaissance, and you have just.. inadvertently hit everything i love about it in one story with my favorite pairing and uuughsdkjhsd YES.

antonio di medici? there are no words, there is only win. D: <333

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Antonio de Medici is made of awesome, and he knows it. :)

I don't have any more planned, but this one sort of came out of nowhere, so who knows?