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...least not in England -- would rival Van Dyck's poetic conception of kingship. From there it is downhill to Winterhalter, though Americans will be interested to see their very own Benjamin West, the wunderkind from the colonies and George III's favorite artist, doing a full length of the monarch with Redcoats in the background in 1779. No Yankee rebel, he. The main lesson here about British royal taste is how fast it died after 1830. It would have done better with Mad King Ludwig than with Good Prince Albert...
...truism that Americans expect and desire their President to have some of the qualities of a king. When noting this phenomenon, observers usually have in mind Air Force One, the Deaverish pomp of presidential events, the Secret Service agents who so resemble a monarch's elite household guard, the convoy of limousines that accompanies the President on his visits, and the other grandiose appurtenances of the presidency. Even Bill Clinton has benefited from this aspect of his office and so appears somewhat more imposing and regal than would the former Governor of Arkansas if he were treated like...
...Queen Elizabeth (Quentin Crisp) deeds a great English manor to handsome young Lord Orlando (Tilda Swinton) on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." The lad takes the monarch's admonition to heart and, miraculously, ages not at all from that day to this. Orlando is a fellow in love with love -- ever eager to die upon a kiss, but destined to live forever apart from those mortals he cherishes. In 1610 he falls for a fickle Russian princess (Charlotte Valandrey). One day, a century and a half later, he wakes...
Ireland's President, Mary Robinson, had a private tea with Queen Elizabeth. It's the first time an Irish chief of state has met with a British monarch since the founding of the Republic of Ireland...
...work that Cuno highlights in the exhibit is Philipon's "Sketches Made in Court of November 14, 1831." The Pairs court tried the artist for creating a caricature that offended the king. Philipon claimed that since he had not named the king, any resemblance to the monarch was a coincidence. To illustrate this point, the artist drew four images before the court: the king, a pear with the king's hair and features, and a pear with only a suggestion of human features. Philipon argued that if the fourth image looked like the first, it was simply a coincidence...