28 May, 2011

25 May, 2011

Beautiful People

Carlos IV of Spain and his Family. Oil on canvas painting by Goya. 1800

"The king looks like a brewer, and the queen appears to be a waitress... or worse, but what diamonds did Goya painted on her!"

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bassin d'Apollon

Plus Ultra

 
 "I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God."

- Madonna

When John Was Alive


24 May, 2011

Deutschland Über Alles?

Charles V in Armour. Rubens. 1548.

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."

- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

A Look we Like

Magister Dixit:

"I hate crap. I like craftmanship"

- Isabella Blow

Been There, Done That

Why Don't You?

1950. Dining-room at Wilton House. Smith, the buttler has been with the Earl and Countess of Pembroke for 36 years. There was a time when the family had 28 indoor servants, but the drastic postwar chances do not worry the Pembrokes:

"All through the war, we ate behind a screen in our living-room."


- Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery

A Very Stylish Girl

22 May, 2011

Magister Dixit:

"Contentment travels rarely with fortune."

- Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France

Pushing Up

"Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men."

- Madonna

68.

Witchcraft

Inter Alia

Profiles of  Louis XIV in different ages.

Oriental Fever

Patricia Lopez-Willshaw photographed by Cecil Beaton during the course of Charles de Beistegui's ball. Venice, 1951.

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