Move on

I would like to mourn with elephants who remember their dead

while on the move, and do not tell each other what to feel....

The Heroine and the Moment

Queen Louise of Prussia
and
neoclassical images of female power

Prinzessinnengruppe by J.G. Schadow, Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Photo source: Web Gallery of Art

- coming soon to mark the anniversary of the birth of Louise,  

on 10th March, 1776.

devil's profession

                   I used to think

                   in The Third Person....

unmasked

I once heard James Corden telling a radio interviewer how he enjoyed fame and being the centre of attention, and that he had never met an actor who didn't want those things. I could show him a few....

THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION AT LAST - when he is dead. A deceased youth, identified by the comic mask he is holding and the scroll lying under his chair as an actor or playwright.  Detail from a decoration attributed to the Underworld Painter on a terracotta krater made in Apulia, South Italy, 330-320 B.C., in the J.Paul Getty Collection.

mind gardens 2 - symmetry of water

View of the Three Fountain Grove at Versailles, painted by Jean Cotelle the Younger in 1688-90.

Galerie du Grand Trianon. Photo source: Web Gallery of Art

Enchanted places: View of the Pool at Hidcote

See also:

history: GARDEN THEATRES

 mind gardens

story: GARDEN part one of Leftover

and THE YEARNING GARDEN 
part eight of Leftover

anatomy

the link between brain, heart, throat and abdomen....

Borgen 2 ½ - THE FORTRESS

I was elected to the Board of the Residents Association last week - AAAGH! Photo: MARTIN HUEBSCHER PHOTOGRAPHY

Best Actor...WITH DOGS

"Never work with animals or children"...

Aristocratic illusion: Van Dyck has never been surpassed at making dogs and children look real and regal at the same time. Charles is shown aged five, having just been breeched; his sister Mary is four, and James is only two. [Image source for The Three Eldest Children of Charles I in The Royal Collection: Wikipaintings]

...unless you're Charles II....

Best Actor in an ESCAPE

Charles II painted in exile, by Philippe de Champaigne, 1653

Once upon a time, before Disneyland...

....there was the LABYRINTH of VERSAILLES...

Cupid and Aesop at the Entrance of Le Labirinthe de Versailles by Jean Cotelle the younger

A Big Wedding

BALLET AND BISCUITS

The bride, Marguerite de Lorraine-Vaudemont, was the sister of the queen consort of France; the groom was the 21 year old boyfriend of the king.....

The White Queen of Ballet

19th century history of fashion book illustration of Henri III 
and Louise
Image source: Wikipedia

The fountain chariot that carried Louise, her ladies and musicians in Le Ballet Comique de la Reine, 1581.   
Image source: Wikipedia

Louise of Lorraine (1553 -1601), queen consort of France, for once not overshadowed by her terrifying mother-in-law, Catherine de Medici, stepped out of a fountain chariot.......

Community Care

As soon as big-name disease is diagnosed,

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