Archive for Month: June 2013

Pride Parade 2013

The pictures were taken not during the parade but at the gathering points of various groups. Most costumes were ordered from Mattel.

Les Liaisons dangereuses

The Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont are plotting how to corrupt innocent people. Soon, Chevalier Danceny, the music tutor, disruppts their tete-a-tete. Valmont is taking his leave. Chevalier Danceny mortally wounds Valmont in the duel. (Note that Marquise de Merteuil’s dress is made after Watteau’s sketch of the sack-back […]

True or False

  Did Walter Raleigh lay his cloak over the mud puddle in queen Elisabeth’s way? Was there a puddle? Is  Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the Young Man Among Roses?