Gods and Foolish Grandeur

(It's been two months and five days since I've had time to scrape together a blog post. We're all moved into the new house, but...

Or more accurately, from apartment to house to home. After living in the same apartment for the whole ten years of our cohabitation, Gig...

In 1914, at the commencement of what would come to be called "The Great War" - World War I - the ladies of the Imperial famil...

Princess Beatrice was eighteen the year Baron von Angeli - her mother Queen Victoria's favorite portrait painter at the time - com...

Marion Davies, in "Beverly of Graustark", 1926. Jean Alut l'ainé, miniature by Pierre Chasselat, circa 1780s. Reser...