Empress Josephine at Château Malmaison – Woman of Influence
Jean-Baptiste REGNAULT French 1754-1829 Empress Josephine (Portrait de laimperatrice Josephine) (c. 1810) oil on canvas Fondation Dosne-Thiers (Institut de France), Paris Bequest of Frederic Masson,...
View ArticleAngelica Kauffmann Artist – A Woman of Influence & Style
Angelica Kauffmann Self Portrait with Sculpture of Minerva As far as women are concerned the Age of Reason in the eighteenth century was certainly inappropriately named. This was a period when the role...
View ArticleJeanne Antoinette Marquise de Pompadour – Woman of Influence
Madame de Pompadour by Francois Boucher French painter François Boucher (1703-1770) produced many of the images we have of the enigmatic Jeanne Antoinette, Marquise de Pompadour, Maîtresse-en-titre, or...
View ArticleDiane de Poitiers – Moon Mistress and Woman of Influence
In legend Helen of Troy was the face that ‘launched a thousand ships’ championed in her desire and love for Prince Paris of Troy by Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of desire. Her divine duty was to make...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds – Vale Women of Influence
Hollywood Actor Carrie Fisher (1956-2016), more affectionately known to millions of people around the world as the opinionated, impatient and self-assured Princess Leia, departed this life two days...
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