Gods and Foolish Grandeur

The wedding of Princess Alice and Prince Louis, by George Housman Thomas, 1862-63. On July 1, 1862, at Osborne House, on the Isle of W...

*** Clarence Sinclair Bull (May 22, 1896, Sun River, Montana - June 8, 1979, Los Angeles), one of the greatest port...

Watercolor on ivory, approx. 7.5 x 5.75 inches. Prince Ernst Leopold Victor Carl August Joseph Emich (November 9, 1830, Amorbach – ...

Odd artifact:  This is apparently an x-ray of the right hand of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the last tsaritsa of Russia, taken some ti...

Johanna (Hanna) Elisabeth Maria von Klinkosch (August 13, 1849, Vienna - January 31, 1925, Baden bei Wien), was the second wife of Prin...

Ted Shawn (October 21, 1891, Kansas City, Missouri — January 9, 1972, Orlando, Florida), born Edwin Myers Shawn, an important male pione...

This and the following two photographs were taken in 1887, the year she turned seventeen. Sophie (June 14, 1870, Potsdam – January ...

No one more cool.  At least, in that delightful version of cool that is neurotic, bumbling, and poetically miserable.

Some of Adrian's handiwork from the Technicolor fashion sequence. *** Most of the sc...