When Prince Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861 — at the tender age of 42 — Queen Victoria went into a deep depression. Then she went...

  This is how my house looked in 1950, two years after it was built. On the right is a garage, which makes the house appear as if it...

Mark D. Ruffner, 1971 My last posting on the very idealized likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte caused me to think about the man and his tre...

I recently bought this bust, which stands about 18" high. I was pretty sure that he was Caesar Augustus, emperor of Rome, 27 BC - 14...

Last year, I introduced you to my brother René, and his billiards paintings . Now I'm featuring my other brother, Cliff, and his inte...

Regular readers of this blog know that one of my passions is collecting 19th century advertising. I thought today I'd share some of my...