Gods and Foolish Grandeur
Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Die ganz große Familie - Moritz, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel and "crew" by August Erich, circa 1618-1630
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Landgraf Moritz von Hessen-Kassel mit seiner Familie . Apparently worked on for twelve years, the painting measures 230.5 cm x 422 cm (90....
Friday, April 19, 2024
Ladies on sofas - six paintings... also, three dogs
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Little White Dog, by Henri Lebasque, 1905. The Pink Dress, by William Nicholson, 1934. Madame Simone (the stage and pen name of Simone Le ...
Sunday, April 14, 2024
But was he... Fred? - photographs by Horst
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* Some of the titles of the photographs in this series refer to the subject as merely a "handsome blond man," while others are s...
Friday, April 12, 2024
"The way she shimmers" - a portrait of Elizabeth Farren by Sir Thomas Lawrence, circa 1790
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I've always loved this painting, the way she shimmers. The whole painting does, really. Her satin cloak, certainly, but also throughou...
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
Glorious clutter - still-lifes by Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten
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Roestraten's still-lifes fall within the Dutch pronkstilleven - " ostentatious still-life" - tradition, in which luxurious o...
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