Loved Alone

Inner Lid from a Cassone with Venus Reclining on Pillows

  "For the error bred in the bone

Of each woman and each man

Craves what it cannot have,

Not universal love

But to be loved alone." 

(W.H. Auden)

Pulling out the Red Carpet

"The Chess Players"/Sir John Lavery

"Jeune Femme dans un Interieur"/Léon de Smet

"Portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold"/Pyotr Konchalovsky

"The Gallery" (1952)/Leonard Campell Taylor

The Coronation of Ladislave of Naples"/Mato Celestin Medović

"Girl on a Red Carpet" (1912)/Felice Casorati