David Gelber is treasurer for the Society of Court Studies.
The Armenian businessman had a taste for portable items of beauty and cherished his collection as though it were an extension of himself
Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium has just celebrated its third birthday but despite its shiny facade, the club still projects a message of continuity and tradition
The engraver’s visions of a continent he never saw were designed to appeal to the European imagination
The emperor was no connoisseur – but he understood the power of art to paper over the cracks in his troubled reign
The museum housed in the former royal palace in Rio de Janeiro was once a symbol of national pride and progress
The recreation of an exhibition of Brazilian modernism during the Second World War is a remarkable feat
The dictator and his wife lived in luxury at their Spring Palace – with a golden bathroom and the only colour TV in Romania
Paintings, jewellery, clothes, and weapons could all be used to show support for the Jacobite pretenders’ claims to the throne
She's an icon of Scottish nationhood and martyrdom, but Mary's life at court was a complicated one of competing cultural, social and political influences
Three shows in Madrid bring out the contradictions of Charles III, an enlightened ruler who could not resist the trappings of monarchy
