Gods and Foolish Grandeur
Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
A lady, lost. And found.
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Languishing in storage, having been part of the collection of the Bowes Museum in northeast England since that establishment/s opening i...
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Orange, to be fair
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Robert Rich, Second Earl of Warwick, by Anthony van Dyck, circa 1632-35. If I were ever to sit about pondering my favorite colors, ora...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015
A father, a son, a crown - state portraits of Edward VII and George V by Sir Luke Fildes
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King Edward VII, 1902. Queen Alexandra, on seeing the painting, slyly alluded to the King's droopy eyelids which the artist had done ...
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Saturday, December 5, 2015
Les dames en rose, les dames en rouge
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Self-portrait, Katarina Ivanovic, circa 1830s. Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf - mademoiselle Duclos - actress, in the role of Ariane, by N...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Portraits of King Charles I by Daniël Mijtens
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1628. 1631. 1626. 1629. 1633. (Copy?) With his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, 1631. As Prince of Wales, 1624. ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Mata Hari - a triumph of reinvention and its cost
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Mata Hari - the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod née Zelle (7 August 1876, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands – 15 October 1917...
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