30 June, 2012

Magnus Ludovicus

Louis XIV by Charles le Brun

"Has God forgotten all I have done for Him?"


- Louis XIV, King of France

27 June, 2012

The tomb of Elizabeth I. Westminster Abbey. 
13 June 1957: A guardsman faints during the Trooping the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade.

Magister Dixit


"My motto - sans limites."

- Isadora Duncan

16 June, 2012

The Immortality of Nelson. Benjamin West, 1807.

13 June, 2012

Magister Dixit

"The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive"

- Coco Chanel

Strike a Pose

La Femme aux trois bras. Ingres.

In Versace We Trust








A Look We Like

Portrait of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor as a young man. Martin van Meytens. 1770.


Martin van Meytens. Joseph II in his youth. Details.

12 June, 2012

Happy Birthday



"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."


06 June, 2012

Magister Dixit:


"I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form."

- Joan Crawford

01 June, 2012

Magister Dixit:

"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people." 


George Jean Nathan 

Happy Birthday Marilyn!


Scala Regia Paper is Coming Really Soon