Scala Regia

God Save the Queen

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High Profile

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Charles Bridge. Prague.

Strike a Pose

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Rex Lex:

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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."

- Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

Amen

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"Let my enemies devour each other"

- Salvador Dalí

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Mourning for Icarus, Herbert James Draper, 1898.

A Look We Like

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Strike a Pose

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Magister Dixit:

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"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."

- Quentin Crisp

Man at Work

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Still Life with Parrots. Jan de Heem.

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Gold Fever

2012-02-06T13:56:00.000Z

Happy 60th Jubilee Ma'am

2012-02-06T12:22:00.000Z

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

1952 - 2012

Magister Dixit:

2012-02-05T01:04:00.001Z

"The superfluous is extremely necessary"

- Voltaire

A Look We Like

2012-02-04T22:49:00.000Z

Don't Get Mad, Get Everything...

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Infant Jesus of Prague

Born Today:

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Strike a Pose

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Rex Lex:

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"Listen, I’m always on a worst-dressed list - and I really don’t give a shit. You can’t."

- Daphne Guinness

Magister Dixit:

2012-02-01T14:48:00.003Z

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."

- Diana Vreeland

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Amen

2012-01-31T06:35:00.001Z

“I see, I collect – therefore I am.”

- Sir Cecil Beaton

High Profile

2012-01-31T02:29:00.000Z

Madame Jean Tronchin by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1758.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

2012-01-31T02:03:00.000Z

Detail of the tomb of Maria Flaminia Odescalchi Chigi by Paolo Posi, Santa Maria del Popolo. Roma.

Magister Dixit:

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Queen Elizabeth posing near the Waterloo Monumental Vase. Buckingham Palace.

"How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless."

- Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
(letter to Edith Sitwell, shortly after the death of George VI)

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Beneath the flat and paper sky

The sun, a demon's eye,

Glowed through the air, that mask of glass;

All wand'ring sounds that pass

Seemed out of tune, as if the light

Were fiddle-strings pulled tight.

The market-square with spire and bell

Clanged out the hour in Hell;

The busy chatter of the heat

Shrilled like a parakeet;

And shuddering at the noonday light

The dust lay dead and white

As powder on a mummy's face,

Or fawned with simian grace

Round booths with many a hard bright toy

And wooden brittle joy:

The cap and bells of Time the Clown

That, jangling, whistled down

Young cherubs hidden in the guise

Of every bird that flies;

And star-bright masks for youth to wear,

Lest any dream that fare

-Bright pilgrim-past our ken, should see

Hints of Reality.

Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green,

Tall trees like rattles lean,

And jangle sharp and dissily;

But when night falls they sign

Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in,

His face more white than sin,

Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare

Each cherry, plum, and pear.

Then underneath the veiled eyes

Of houses, darkness lies--

Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer

They cleave the sly dumb air.

Blind are those houses, paper-thin

Old shadows hid therein,

With sly and crazy movements creep

Like marionettes, and weep.

Tall windows show Infinity;

And, hard reality,

The candles weep and pry and dance

Like lives mocked at by Chance.

The rooms are vast as Sleep within;

When once I ventured in,

Chill Silence, like a surging sea,

Slowly enveloped me.

- Edith Sitwell

Back in the 90's, When Gianni Was Alive

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“Zenobia’s Engagement”, Detail.

Baroque Tapestry Brussels mid‐17th century. After Justus van Egmont’s cartoon.

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A Family Group, Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1634.

Accessorizing

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Castrum Doloris

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"Mausolée pour la cérémonie funèbre de S.A.R. Philippe de France Duc d'Orléans, frère unique du Roy, érigé en l'Eglise de St Denis par ordre de Sa Majesté, le samedi 23. Juillet 1701".

A Look We Like

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Marie-Louise de Parma as a Bride, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1765.

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Cornelis de Vos. Two Sisters. Circa 1615.

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Saint Sebastian. Giuseppe Giorgetti, 1672.

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Wing of a Roller. Albrecht Dürer. 1512.

High Profile

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Diamonds are Barbara Hutton best friends, Guillaume Pelloux

Book Nº 117

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Accessorizing

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Pater Europae

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Monumental equestrian statue of Charlemagne, Agostino Cornacchini, 1725. St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican.

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Ecce Homo, Jan Provoost.

Born Today:

2012-01-27T20:09:00.001Z

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Magister Dixit:

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"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."

- Marlene Dietrich

Strike a Pose

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Lacroix Sweetie, Lacroix

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An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

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Venus with apple, Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Les Grands Esprits se Rencontrent

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Socializing

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Saint Longinus, Bernini.

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Court of Heaven

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The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs, Fra Angelico, 1423.

Heads Up

2012-01-24T06:01:00.002Z

Amor Vincit Omnia?

2012-01-24T05:29:00.003Z

Les funérailles de l'Amour. Detail. Antoine Caron.

Pink Attitude

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Home Sweet Home

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Scala Regia Paper Issue

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Scala Regia Paper Issue is taking submissions. If you think your ideas/projects are regal enough send them to us at

thomasdavis@scala-regia.com

Sauvage

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La chasse au tigre, au lion et au léopard, Peter Paul Rubens, 1616.

Chez Mademoiselle

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Augustusburg Palace

Heads Up

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Prague State Opera

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Still Life with Silver, Alexandre-François Desportes, 1661.

Les Grands Esprits se Rencontrent

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Olé

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A Look We Like

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Saint Sebastian, Pietro Perugino, 1495.

Woman at Work

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Europa Nostra

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Nine sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, Friday, May 20, 1910

Standing (left to right): King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel of Portugal, Emperor William II of Germany, King George I of the Hellenes, King Albert of the Belgians.

Seated (left to right): King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V, King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

Mysteries of Lisbon

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Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.

We Are Family

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Charles I and family, Hendrick Gerritsz Pot, 1632

Magister Dixit:

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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

- Aldous Huxley

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Accessorizing

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A Look We Like

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Victor de Rochechouart, Duc de Mortemart, Jean-Marc Nattier

Heads Up

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Wat Rong Khun Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

Happy 40th Jubilee Daisy

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Adam and Eve, Tamara de Lempicka, 1932.

Accessorizing

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Strike a Pose

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Rex Lex:

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"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."

- Edith Sitwell

High Profile

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Masters and Slaves

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Home Sweet Home

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Alexandre Popoff's Paris Apartment by Serebriakoff

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Saints Erasmus and Mauritius - Matthias Grünewald, 1523.