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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: November 2014
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Monsieur et madame de Thelluson, by Liotard, 1760. Julie Marguerite de Thellusson, née Ployard (1740-1820). Isaac-Louis de Thellusson, Seigneur de la Gara (1727-1801). The long locks of his powdered hair have been put up at the back of his head with a comb, an arrangement I haven't seen in any other portrait; to. Keep the powder off of his fine embroidered silk dressing gown, I presume? His father had d...
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: July 2014
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Risaldar Jagat Singh, 12th Cavalry, and Ressaidar Man Singh, 21st Cavalry, by Philip de László, 1916. This double portrait seems to have been done for the artist's own pleasure, and was in his studio at his death. From the De László Archive Trust's catalogue raisonné:. Labels: Philip de László. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The Empress Eugénie in eighteenth-century costume, by Winterhalter, 1854. Portrait of ...
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: Robert Taylor - a bath and a bathe, 1937
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Robert Taylor - a bath and a bathe, 1937. Personal Property - screen shots. A Yank at Oxford - candid/publicity shots. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Horst P. Horst. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna. Bernard Boutet de Monvel. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich. Isabel II of Spain. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna.
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: July 2015
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. James, Duke of York, later King James II, in the guise of a Roman general, by Henri Gascar, circa 1673. Unknown, no date. Miss Beaton" (probably Barbara "Baba" Beaton, sister of Cecil Beaton), by George Spencer Watson, circa 1933 or 1934. Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" (Little Red Riding Hood), by Fleury François Richard, circa 1820. Comte Christophe Urbanowski, by Anton Graff, 1791. Photographer unknown, 1988.
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: April 2015
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Another preview of May. Still Life I - Wine Glass and Diary - acrylic on panel - 16x16 - 2015. There are "objects" in many of my paintings - fans, furniture, objets d'art. Jewelry, toilet articles, etc. - but never once have I done a straightforward still-life. In preparing my upcoming show, I thought I'd give that a try, just for the hell of it, eh? Anyway. It was salvaged from an otherwise very ug...
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: December 2014
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Vladimir Gaidarov (or Gajdarov; the spelling of his credited name varies widely; 25 July 1893, Poltava - 17 December 1976, St. Petersburg),. There, the Ophelia in Hamlet was played. By Olga Gzovskaia, who would later become his wife. They remained together until her death in 1962. He and his wife returned to Russia in 1933 and settled in Leningrad. From 1938 to 1968 he was engaged at the Leningrad Push...
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: May 2015
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Queen Isabel II of Spain and her daughter, Infanta Isabel, by Winterhalter, 1852. Isabel II (10 October 1830, Madrid – 10 April 1904, Paris), queen regnant of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, bearing the impressive-by-any-standard name:. Later, in 1866, an English writer gave a most unflattering description of the royal couple:. With her husband and consort, the Duke of Cádiz.
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: March 2015
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Paintings by Joachim Wtewael. The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1600. (Detail.). I included three images by the Dutch Mannerist Joachim Wtewael. In my post last week on paintings illustrating the mythological tale of Vulcan's gathering of the gods of Olympus to make them witness of the bed-rumpling of his wife and her lover Mars whom he'd just caught in flagrante delicto. The Judgement of Paris, 1615.
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: June 2015
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur. Life And The Arts.From A Retrograde Perspective. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Jupiter Disguised as Diana Seducing Callisto, by Gerrit van Honthorst, circa 1625-1650. The Marriage of Napoléon I and Marie Louise, 2 April 1810, by Georges Rouget, 1811. Miniature by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, circa late 1780s. Photograph identified as being taken in Tokyo during the Thirties. Mirza Abu'l Hassan Khan, Ambassador for the Shah of Persia, by William Beechey, 1809 or 1810. Elisabeth Farnese, Pr...
