David Yearsley

London Illustrated Magazine, Coronation edition, 1953. The season has changed, if reluctantly.

David Yearsley Louis XIV as Apollo in the Ballet Royal de la Nuit, 1653; Trump dances to “YMCA,” 2024 (YouTube screenshot).

Ives At Election Time Opening of Charles Ives’s song “Majority” (1921) The iconoclastic American composer become cultural monument Charles Ives was born

One afternoon at Versailles in 1669, the Duke of Lauzun hid himself under Montespan’s bed before one of her regularly scheduled afternoon trysts with Louis in her grand apartments.

Twice a year, every spring and fall, Ithaca, New York hosts one of the biggest used book sales in the United States.

The first half of the German seventeenth century was a time and place of short men with well-tended facial hair.

David Yearsley Shaboozey puts the pedal to the metal on his way past the big Billboard of fame and fortune. (YouTube screenshot)

David Yearsley Organist and other musicians accompany gladiatorial combat. Roman mosaics, 2dn Century C. E., Zliten, Libya.

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols fills King’s College Chapel at Cambridge University every year on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. The service is

Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504.Uffizi, Florence. (public domain) Christmas is a dangerous time, for it threatens social instability, political disorder, even revolution.