Magnus Ludovicus

Louis XIV by Charles le Brun

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

- Louis XIV, King of France

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

Venus, Cupido and Satyr, Bronzino.

Magister Dixit

"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."

-Oscar Wilde

  

Drawing by Charles Le Brun

Drawing by Charles Le Brun 

Cornelis van Haarlem. The Massacre of the Innocents. 1590.

A Look We Like

A Look We Like

 Queen Adelaide painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee in 1836.

The Immortality of Nelson. Benjamin West, 1807.

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.

Happy Birthday

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

- Anne Frank

Bouquet in an Attic Bell Crater by Fedinand Georg Waldmuller, 1840

Heads Up

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor by Martin Van Meytens. Detail.

Just a Gigolo

Strike a Pose

Saint Sebastian by Antonio Giorgetti

Magister Dixit:

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

- Joan Crawford

Book Nº 119

Pompa Vaticana

God Save the Queen!

High Profile

A Look We Like

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!

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