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Leopold

It was a dark and stormy night...

About Me

Hello! I love History, Mythology, Architecture, Art, decorative arts, traditional architecture, classical music, antiques, and European history. I am of British, German, and Bohemian ancestry. I chose the pseudonym “Leopold” on a whim, but it was and name given to several member of my family.

I very much like Medieval, Victorian, l'art nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites art. Some Artist I like are J.W. Waterhouse, Franz Xavier Winterhalter, James Tissot, Edward Burne-Jones, Albrecht Dürer, Gustave Moreau, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alphonse Mucha, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and...

My Interests

History, Mythology, Architecture, Art, Music, reading, Books, the Victorian Era, Pre-Raphaelites, Museums, la Belle Epoque, Deutsches Kaiserreich, l'art nouveau, decorative arts, Antiques, European Pre-History, crafts, Calligraphy, 19th Century, Middle Ages and Renaissance, Victorian fashion and dress, Medieval Tapestries, Technology, Kulturkampf, Archaeology, photography, Renaissance Fairs, Archaeology, Old Rifles, Firearms, alchemy, Paris, Vienna, London, Tsarist Russia, Military History, and lots of other stuff...

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Classical Music, Baroque, Bach, Wagner, Liszt, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, Opera, Folk, Celtic, Organ, Loreena McKennitt... and other stuff

Movies:

Sword of the Valiant, Alice in Wonderland, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Dark Crystal, Gone with the Wind, A Little Princess, Interview with the vampire, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Ben Hur, Persuasion, Big Jake, Lord of the Rings, The Lion in Winter, Noon till Three, The Brothers Grimm, Henry V, Troy, The Hobbit, How the West was Won, Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World, Sleepy Hollow, The Great Race, Casino Royale, The Illusionist, The Patriot, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Elizabeth, Labyrinth, A Room with a View, Pan's Labyrinth, Her Majesty Mrs. Brown, Clash of the Titans, Return to OZ, Rebecca, The Godfather, Aleksander Nevsky, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain ...

Television:

Mainly a waste of time, so I try not too... but do like Movies and Documentaries... Animated stuff

Books:

Mythology, Ancient History, Art, Antiques, biographies, Victorian stuff, short stories, Poems, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Charles Addams, Lord Byron, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, William Morris, Grimm, Pushkin, John Keats, Pugin, Don Quixote de la Mancha, Wilfred Owen, John Ruskin, H.P. Lovecraft, Balzac, Edward Gorey, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling ...and more

Heroes:

King Alfred the Great, Frederick the Great, Queen Victoria, William Morris, A. W. N. Pugin, Richard Wagner, Thomas Carlyle, Don Quixote, Alice, Piers Plowman, Beowulf ...

My Blog

Autumn at Last!

Autumn at Last! It was just too hot this summer... ...
Posted by Leopold on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:21:00 PST

The Ruin

Wrætlic is þes wealstan,     wyrde gebræcon; burgstede burston,     brosnað enta geweorc. Hrofas sind gehrorene,   &n...
Posted by Leopold on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

Carl Larsson (Swedish artist)

Carl Larsson (18531919) was a Swedish artist, illustrator, and interior designer.The Carl and Karin Larsson Family Associationhttp://www.clg.se/Carl Larsson galleryhttp://www.scandinaviantreasures.co...
Posted by Leopold on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

Nicholas Roerich

Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh) Nicholas Roerich Museum (New York) http://www.roerich.org/...
Posted by Leopold on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:16:00 PST

The Lesser Arts of Life by William Morris

THE LESSER ARTS OF LIFE. An Address Delivered in support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings by William Morris, originally published in London: 1882 THE Lesser Arts of Life may no...
Posted by Leopold on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:35:00 PST

The first Zeppelin flight July 2, 1900

The first Zeppelin LZ1 ascending over Lake Constance. Link Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei GmbH(Modern Airship tours) ...
Posted by Leopold on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:07:00 PST

Queen Victorias Birthday!

Queen Victoria's Birthday! Alexandrina Victoria was born on the 24th of May 1819. Victoria 1843 Franz Xaver Winterhalter Victoria 1842 Franz Xaver Winterhalter Victoria age 8 Queen Vi...
Posted by Leopold on Fri, 25 May 2007 04:38:00 PST

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

"Tissot was born Jacques Joseph Tissot in Nantes, to a middle class family. He initially studied art at Beaux-Arts in Paris. Tissot's early paintings are mainly historical, & heavily influenced ...
Posted by Leopold on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:04:00 PST

Franz Xavier Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Am...
Posted by Leopold on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:02:00 PST

Happy May Day to All!

Happy May Day! ...
Posted by Leopold on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:07:00 PST