Gods and Foolish Grandeur
Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Gertie, tonight - Gertrude Lawrence in Hartnell for Coward by Horst, Vogue, 15 November 1936
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* When the image is enlarged, the rather crude retouching of Miss Lawrence's slightly less than aristocratic nose is quite obvious. Th...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025
All the little gentlemen - portraits by Louis-Léopold Boilly, circa 1800-25
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I find Boilly's very small-scale head-and-shoulders portraits of gentlemen quite charming. I haven't bothered to caption or date a...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
The countess' charming feet - photographs by Atelier d'Ora, 1916
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Schuhe der Gräfin Erdödy bei der Krönung Kaiser Karls zum König von Ungarn - Shoes of Countess Erdödy at the coronation of Emperor Karl a...
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Sunday, February 9, 2025
Gustatory torment - paintings of a very patient Great Dane by Wilhelm Trübner, 1877-79
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Caesar am Rubikon / Dogge mit Wurstschüssel , 1878. (Caesar at the Rubicon / Great Dane with sausage bowl.) And if at first you succeed ......
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