The Duchess of Argyll and the Headless Men
Here's a bit more about the affair
Count Fersen and Marie Antoinette - Count Fersen and Marie Antoinette revisited
Altered portrait - eyes made smaller, nose longer and fatter, Habsburg lip given and hair blonded (she had a very pretty golden hair, which would have looked quite white powdered). Frankly, I don't think the paintings of her are THAT beautified. The painters had to make the people look themselves. Even if the skin was smoothed, eyes perhaps made a bit bigger and proportions tweaked a little, the changes were so small one shouldn't even bother thinking about them.
I think about Princess Royal, Anne of England, whose is supposed to look like a horse...
A very pretty horse that is :-) But she too has long face and nose and sort of fleshy lower lip, and even though her eyes are by no means small, they can give that perception.
The paintings made of Marie Antoinette later make me think of Maggie Smith.
She isn't really beautiful either, with her rather long and narrow face, but... frankly... none of these women is ugly.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know
The Secret Meaning of Elizabethan Salads
So fascinating... symbolical foods taken to the next level... that could be used in a book.
The Seductive Lady Hamilton
Emma, Lady Hamilton, as seen by Louise-Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun
about Lady Hamilton
Lady Hamilton; a regency romance era heroine
Christine de Pisan
Napoleon and Pauline Bonaparte - Incest?
Famous Affinities of History
the Coincidental Dandy: Wayward Venus; the Life of Marie-Pauline Bonaparte Borghése
Olympe de Gouges
Lady Godiva, peeping Tom and taxes
Boudicca, revenge of a warrior queen
Messalina, the worst wife in history?
Valeria Messalina's statue colored
Nicola Pagett as Messalina in Granada's The Caesars
I think Messalina could well have looked very much like her...
I think she is very pretty... Nicola, that is. Probably Messalina as well.
Theodora, the whore who became an empress
History and women: Nefertiti
Unusual Historicals and Michelle Moran; Nefertiti
The Great Courtesans
Marquerite, Violetta and Marie
Vintage Powder Room and Deauville
La Païva - pickled and preserved
Scandalous Women - blog
The Hero Workshop
Why are scandalous people more intersting than heroes?
Historical warrior women
Jean d'Arc - the wrong hero
Quaintrelles:
Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
Cora Pearl
Marchesa Luisa Casati
Coco Chanel
and Marlene Dietrich
Cora Pearl
Marchesa Luisa Casati
Coco Chanel
and Marlene Dietrich
P.S: Once again, Fascinating People -
1 comment:
Ketutar - you've got a beautiful blog... I greatly enjoyed browsing through it. I quite agree - all the women you've featured here are absolutely fascinating.
I especially found the similarity between the painting of Marie-Antoinette & Maggie Smith (one of my favourite actresses) eerily interesting.
Best,
C.D.
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