#Ferdinand ii

[illustratus]

The First Voyage, Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to Queen Isabella I on his departure for the New World, 3 August, 1492.

by Victor A. Searles

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

"Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube!"

Day 6 of @spaus-week 's challenge

"Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry!" Was the political strategy of the Habsburgs, and marry did the House of Austria! Infamously, scandalously, sensationally. A mangled wreath of a family tree. We all know this horror story. And we all know the bitter end.

After Emperor Charles V&I divided his Spanish and Austrian inheritance ((also gained through his parents' and grandparents' marriages)) to his descendants and those of his younger brother Ferdinand I respectively, the Habsburg dynasty split into two branches. The Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs notoriously intermarried for generations, right up till Charles II of Spain whose heirless death in 1700 sparked the War of the Spanish Succession. The inbreeding and this informal Latin motto behind it has been blamed to hell and back for their implosion, for the physical ugliness that ran in this royal bloodline. But it is not to say the Habsburgs never went to war, nor that dynastic marriage was a political strategy unique to them! But they were, if anything, bloody successful at it seeing how they did rule half of Europe for 200 years, and then a lot of it in the Austrian line for another 200. Before anyone figured out inbreeding was bad it was considered a privilege to marry into the Habsburgs, with Louis XV claiming that Louis XVI's betrothal to Marie Antoinette was marrying the "Daughter of the Caesars", and Napoleon Bonaparte infamously ditching Josephine for Marie Louise. Charles II was a poor sod who took the fall and the mugs were wretched from the same ugly gene being passed around countless times*, but they did wear power and privilege well.

💅✨ Symbolism bc I'm a NERD and this my Category 10 autism event ✨💅 :

Charles V & Ferdinand I's joint portrait based on that propaganda woodcut, behind them the colours of the Habsburg flag.

The Spanish branch, comprising Charles V & I's descendants, is represented with a black background, and the Austrian branch, comprising Ferdinand I's descendants, gold, both colours pulled from their flag, a dynasty intertwined but split in two.

Round frames denote that the individual had no heirs.

Only the most influential ruler on both sides, the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor, are represented as framed portraits, explaining Archduke Charles II's unframed depiction.

The unconventional placement of Charles II of Spain and Emperor Rudolf II's nameplates are a nod to their queerness: their intersexuality and bisexuality respectively.

Ferdinand III's portrait is lopsided because of the losses of the 30 Years War.

Cracks in Charles II's portrait: 🙃🙃🙃

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, October 29th:

Ferdinand II, King Consort of Portugal, 1816

Gagananga Yukala, the Prince Bijitprijakara, 1855

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania, 1875

Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 1934

Constantine-Alexios, Prince of Greece and Denmark, 1998

[magnificentlyreused]

This black and golden outfit was first worn by Emperor Charles V in the fifteenth episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. It appeared again on Danielo Lodovisi in the twenty-fifth episode of the third episode. The outfit was worn again by Charles' brother Emperor Ferdinand II in the thirteenth episode of the fourth season.

[roehenstart]

Ferdinand II (1578-1637), Roman-German Emperor, King of Bohemia amd Hungary. Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber.

[best-habsburg-monarch]

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1619-1637

Not Bohemia's favorite emperor

Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, reigned 1831-1889

More Leopoldina than Pedro I

From anon: "1: The Glorious Beard. Now that is the beard of an emperor. Small children could get lost in it while sharing their Christmas wishlists. 2: Under his monarchy Slavery was abolished without a civil war (whistles innocously in how long it took) 3: Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga is an amazingly long full name"

[t0rschlusspan1k]

Barbara van Beck (1629 – c. 1668)

The Guardian: 'High-status' portrait of bearded woman bought by Wellcome Collection

On 15 September 1657 the diarist John Evelyn had a conversation with an intelligent, cultured German woman, dressed in the height of fashion, who played beautifully to him on the harpsichord. She also had “a most prolix beard, & mustachios, with long locks of haire growing on the very middle of her nose, exactly like an Island Dog.” The Wellcome Collection in London has acquired a remarkable portrait painted a few years before their meeting, which shows Barbara van Beck exactly as Evelyn described her: composed, dignified, wearing a beautiful and expensive low-cut grey silk dress, with a lace collar tied with a scarlet bow, and more ribbons in her hair which was, Evelyn wrote, “neatly dress’d … of a bright browne & fine as well dressed flax”. “We dont know who painted the portrait, or where, when or for whom, but the point of it is Barbara’s dignity,” Angela McShane, Wellcome’s research development manager, said. “This is a beautifully executed high-status painting. She is not portrayed as a freak as the Victorians would have described her – as I often say when lecturing, you can blame the Victorians for most things – but as a woman with great self-possession and presence, painted at a time when she would have been viewed, as Evelyn saw her, as wonderful, a natural wonder.” “There is nothing titillating about her low-cut dress either, though we might now see it that way. She is dressed is in the highest fashion of the day and contemporary viewers would have recognised that.” Samuel Pepys, Evelyn’s contemporary and friend, also met a bearded woman in London in 1668. Some historians believe it was the same person, but McShane thinks this was another woman with a different condition. The diarist described her as “a little plain woman, a Dane, her name Ursula Dyan, about 40 years old, her voice like a little girl’s, with a beard as much as any man I ever saw, as black almost and grizzly”. Evelyn had been dragged in by friends to see a Turkish tightrope walker, and was surprised to meet Barbara, whom he described as “the hairy Maid, or Woman”. He had met her 20 years earlier when she was only eight, but already being exhibited by her parents. She was born Barbara Ursler in 1629 near Augsburg in Bavaria, one of several children but the only one with the condition – unlike the famous Gonzalez family a generation earlier who were all famously hairy – and spent periods living at the French and several Italian courts. Her parents exhibited her in travelling shows, but she clearly also acquired an education. By the time Evelyn met her, she was in London for at least the second time, and had travelled widely across Europe. She spoke several languages, and as she told Evelyn, had married a Dutchman called Michael von Beck. She told him she had “one child that was not hairy, nor were any of her parents or relations”. Evelyn compared her appearance to that of an Iceland dog, a fashionable shaggy lap dog of the day. “Her very Eyebrowes were combed upward, & all her forehead as thick & even as growes on any woman’s head, neatly dress’d. There come also two locks very long out of each eare … the rest of her body not so hairy yet exceedingly long in comparison, armes, neck, breast & back … & for the rest very well shaped, plaied well on the Harpsichord.” McShane said Evelyn’s description of the meeting was significant. “They had a proper conversation, he didn’t just stare at her. There is nothing of the cheap sideshow about it. This is an elegant entertainment for aristocrats.” [...]

[famousborntoday]

Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Aus...

Link: Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor

[diioonysus]

women in art: ophelia

[funstealer]

Armor with matching shield and saddle plates collectively embossed, blued, silvered, and gilded, belonging to Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1529–1595). Made in Milan, ca. 1559, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 

View another post from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta,

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

[archduchessofnowhere]

Folks I just came across the most incredible Habsburg lithography I've ever seen:

It doesn't look that odd at first glance but the more you look at each person the more ????? the picture becomes.

Like first I saw Emperor Franz holding hands with Empress Caroline, ok that's kind of cute! But then I noticed the then Crown Princess Maria Anna crying and praying?? What's going on.

And then I realized Crown Prince Ferdinand is fucking dying in the background???

I don't know who these guys are meant to be but the ones at the right are looking straight at the camera like if they were in The Office.

But this isn't the most ??? things of this picture. Because then I noticed the angel apparently ready to guide Ferdinad to the other world and I need you to tell me if I'm insane or if you see it too.

Guys. Guys. Is the half naked angel... Reichstadt????????

Or is it just a random twink angel???????? Please tell me what you think this will drive me insane jgkgk.

EDIT because I noticed the angel has a dagger so maybe he's actually protecting Ferdinand from death (and if he is meant to be Franz then it's sweet that he's depicted as an angel who protects his family from the other side not that they deserve it much lol)

Anyway I looked it up and apparently Ferdinand almost died in December of 1832, so this lithography of 1833 is depicting that, in a very normal, not bizarre at all way.

[homosexualasstransbian]

on the kinda shit that turn me into a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and ooh baby i'm about to start a 30 years long war

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, March 10th:

Qian Liu,  King of Wuyue, 852

Vasily II, Grand Prince of Moscow, 1415

Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, 1452

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1503

Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, Duchess of Östergötland , 1596

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, 1776

Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, 1845

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, 1964

[magnificentlyreused]

This red and gold outfit was first worn by Archduke Ferdinand (later Emperor Ferdinand II) in the seventh episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. It was worn again by Emperor Charles V in the thirtieth episode of the third season.

The outfit appeared again on István Bethlen in the second episode of the second season of Magnificent Century: Kösem.

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Harness of Milanese Armor.

Date: 1559-1560

Owner: Archduke Ferdinand II; Son of Ferdinand I of Habsburg Austria, sovereign of Tyrol (1529-1595)

Artists/Makers: Giovan Battista Panzeri called Serabaglio , (merchant and barter) (ca. 1520-1591(?)); Marco Antonio Fava, barter (active 2nd half of the 16th century)

Medium: Chased and chased iron: partly blued, partly burnished, partly inlaid with gold and silver. Leather. Light blue and black satin silk, red wool fabric, modern linen or cotton fabric. Armored mesh made of iron and brass.