Gods and Foolish Grandeur
Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Is this the face of a saint? - "Saint Constance", polychrome wooden bust, Florentine School, circa 1450-1475
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This wooden, polychrome bust, in the collection of the Louvre, was previously attributed to the circle of Desiderio da Settignano, and for...
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Pour danser, si vous le souhaitez ? - Robe de bal, brocaded silk taffeta and silk satin, circa 1850
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Though described as a robe de bal à crinoline , the relative narrowness of the skirts would hardly allow for the sort of expansive potent...
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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Favourites - best friends of the queen, dressed "en gaulle," portraits by Vigée Le Brun, 1782
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Until just weeks ago, even with an obsession begun in childhood with all things Marie Antoinette and the last days of the ancien régime , ...
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Nature, precise and direct - botanical paintings by Albertus Jonas Brandt
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* Not quite botanical; let's just say "botanical adjacent"...! * Albertus Jonas Brandt (22 November 1787, Amsterdam – 12 Fe...
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