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Icon-o-rama
Sep. 24th, 2012 02:23 pmFor my primary LJ icon, I chose Madame de Jurjewicz by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, because I thought she looked like me!*
Imagine my surprise to discover that Winterhalter was a favorite of the Royal Family - in this NYTimes Style piece on Her Current Maj's inimitable style, Guy Trebay wrote:
The current queen’s canniest tutor in brand management was likely her mother, said Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the time she married George VI, the plump and pretty Queen Elizabeth, queen consort and later queen mother, carefully crafted an image that conformed to the saccharine beauty ideals best portrayed by the 19th-century portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, a favorite of her husband.
Saccharine,eh? Harrrumph! Not with that dress, baby. Or that nose!
*Before that, my primary icon (who still turns up from time to time) was Simon van Alphen by Nicolaes Maes - can you see the family resemblance?
Imagine my surprise to discover that Winterhalter was a favorite of the Royal Family - in this NYTimes Style piece on Her Current Maj's inimitable style, Guy Trebay wrote:
The current queen’s canniest tutor in brand management was likely her mother, said Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the time she married George VI, the plump and pretty Queen Elizabeth, queen consort and later queen mother, carefully crafted an image that conformed to the saccharine beauty ideals best portrayed by the 19th-century portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, a favorite of her husband.
Saccharine,eh? Harrrumph! Not with that dress, baby. Or that nose!
*Before that, my primary icon (who still turns up from time to time) was Simon van Alphen by Nicolaes Maes - can you see the family resemblance?