Gods and Foolish Grandeur

This image is obviously a page taken from a magazine of the time. Auguste Viktoria (October 22, 1858, Dolzig Palace, in what is now L...

Tonight I'm going to a private reception at the Portland Art Museum, to stand in front of my little painting and introduce it officia...

Watercolor by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1839. Still remarkably intact after the fire that destroyed the palace, 1871.  (The rui...

George IV of the United Kingdom in his coronation robes, 1821. Charles X of France, 1825. George IV, had long been the regent for h...

Anatoly Ivanovich Kramskoi, 1882. Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (June 8, 1837, Ostrogozhsk – April 6, 1887, Saint Petersburg), Russian p...

Circa mid-1920s. Circa mid-1960s.

Click to view larger. Laurits Tuxen (December 9, 1853, Copenhagen – November 21, 1927, Copenhagen), a Danish painter. He was best ...

This miniature is less than two and a half inches in diameter. Sir William Charles Ross (June 3, 1794, London – Jan 20, 1860, London),...

Horst P. Horst (August 14, 1906, Weißenfels-an-der-Saale – November 18, 1999, Palm Beach Gardens), born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann , Ge...

Silk afternoon dress bearing the label "Maison Clément, Delion Lericheux Sr., 8. Place de la Madeleine, Paris", circa 1866. ...