#Italian Nobility

[tiarascrowns]

Magnificent and Historic Natural pearl and diamond tiara/necklace

"One of the most important tiaras to appear at auction in recent years, this royal tiara dates to the second half of the 19th century. Steeped in the rich history of the House of Savoy, this tiara hails an extraordinary provenance. Likely to have been presented to Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo in 1867 as a wedding gift on the occasion of her marriage to Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, later elected King of Spain as Amadeo I (1870- 1873), the tiara, which has remained with the family for over 150 years, is believed to have been created by Musy Padre e Figli – Court Jeweller of Turin, and one of the oldest goldsmiths in Europe.

Composed of graduated scroll motifs set with cushion-shaped, circular- and single-cut diamonds, framing eleven slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearls, the jewel has more recently been seen worn as an elegant necklace.

The tiara is designed as a succession of eleven graduated scroll motifs, each composed of a natural pearl surrounded by old cut diamonds. The surmount rests on a detachable band composed of cluster and bar motifs set with cushion-shaped diamonds. The scroll motifs are detachable and may be adapted and worn as a necklace. The tiara, which was created by Musy, belonged to Maria Vittoria Carlotta Enrichetta Giovanna dal Pozzo della Cisterna (1847-1876), Duchess of Aosta and Queen of Spain."

Sotheby's

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Marchioness Barbara Berlingieri wore Archduchess Maria Anna's Ruby Bow Aigrette for Le Bal des Débutantes at the Shangri La Hotel in Paris on 25 November 2023.

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait Of Eleonora Of Toledo And Her Son, Francesco de' Medici

Artist: Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)

Date: c. 1549

Place: Florence, Italy

Medium: Oil on Panel

Collection: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Eleanor of Toledo

Eleanor of Toledo (Spanish: Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel-Osorio, Italian: Eleonora di Toledo; 11 January 1522 – 17 December 1562) was a Spanish noblewoman who became Grand Duchess of Florence as the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. A keen businesswoman, she financed many of her husband's political campaigns and important buildings like the Pitti Palace. She ruled as regent of Florence during his frequent absences: Eleanor ruled during Cosimo's military campaigns in Genoa in 1541 and 1543, his illness from 1544 to 1545, and again at times during the war for the conquest of Siena (1551–1554). She founded many Jesuit churches. She is credited with being the first modern first lady or consort.

[galleryofart]

Portrait Of Bia De' Medici

Artist: Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)

Genre: Portrait

Date: circa 1542

Medium: Oil on Wood

Collection: The Uffizi, Room of the Dynasties

In the late 19th century, this painting was already identified as a portrait of the “natural daughter of the Duke”, Cosimo, born before his marriage in 1539: the little Bianca, known as Bia.

In 1560, Francesco Maria II della Rovere’s ambassador to Tuscany, Simone Fortuna wrote in a letter that Cosimo “in his first years as duke, had, by a noblewoman of Florence, a girl who was baptised in the name of His Illustrious Excellence, and called Bia. And the Lady Duchess, finding her in her home, was raising the girl lovingly, as she was born to her husband before she became his wife.” The young girl was therefore brought up, as often happened, alongside the legitimate children of the household, surrounded by the affection of Eleanor of Toledo and her grandmother, Maria Salviati, with whom she spent a great deal of time and who was particularly fond of her.

Unfortunately, at the age of about five, Bia suddenly fell ill towards the end of January 1542 and died within a few weeks.

The duke was distraught and had a plaster funeral mask cast of the child, as listed in the Guardaroba inventory of 1553, which also contains the first record of the portrait of Bia by Bronzino, mentioned by Giorgio Vasari in his biography of the artist. Some scholars have advanced the theory that Bronzino did not paint the child while she was alive, but that he took the mask as his model. The date of the work is therefore between 1542 and 1545, when the painter also completed the Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo with her son, Giovanni (Uffizi) which uses the same solution as the other painting, placing the figure before a deep blue background that becomes lighter around the face.

In spite of the young girl’s clothing, which is in white to allude both to her purity and her name, Bianca, and the abundance of jewels worthy of an adult princess, Bronzino’s exceptional talent has given the living image of the child all of the vivacity of a painting done from life. This is also due to the seated position that sees the child almost ready to jump to her feet, with a barely contained exuberance, and the way that she fidgets with the belt between her fingers.

As well as the string of pearls around her neck, the child is also wearing a gold chain with a medal showing the profile of her father, Cosimo, as he appears in a portrait by Pontormo, now in the Palatine Gallery in Pitti Palace.

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ June 16, 2012 ✵

Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Parma, Marchioness of Sala & Albert Brenninkmeijer

[rochenn]

Writing real world AUs for SW is the biggest exercise in suspending ur disbelief because of those NAMES.

Obi-Wan? Yeah that's just Ben now regardless of what stage of life he's in. Dooku? Sorry you must mean signore Serenno. Legend has it he's some sort of Italian. Qui-Gon Jinn? Um. Uhhh. He was born to hippie parents in the 70s that's why. Yeah I know that's kinda fucked up. Don't ask about Ben's last name btw

[illustratus]

The armoury of the nobleman Uboldo invaded by Milanese insurgents to obtain weapons on 19 March 1848

by Carlo Bossoli

[sforzesco]

THE BROTHERS SFORZA

augh. there sure is a lot going on between them. tfw you know your older brother is wary of you so you have to navigate that fine line of proving you're useful, but not dangerously so. tfw your younger brother has the potential to be a knife in your back, but he's your brother. don't think too hard about what happened with the galeazzo. unfortunately, you're both visconti as well as sforza, and the visconti were prone to conspiracy. fucking RIP.

this definitely won't be upsetting years down the line when ascanio is near death and ludovico will be desperate to figure out how to bring his brother's body back to milan so ascanio can be interred in the same place as ludovico's recently deceased wife, beatrice d'este, and where ludovico himself has been haunting in a perpetual state of grief.

& the background of the first panel are public domain scans of two cards out of the visconti-sforza tarot deck.

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pimen Nikitich Orlov (Russian, 1812-1865) Group portrait of the sisters: writer Countess Elizaveta Vasilievna Salias de Tournemire, artist Sofia Vasilievna Sukhovo-Kobylina and Evdokia Vasilievna Petrovo-Solovo, 1847 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

[la-belle-histoire]

Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, Jacques-Louis David. 1821.

[bookmark-extraordinaire]

I recently had a conversation with a friend that made me realise that (maybe) people might not know that the Italian mafia still exists and actively operates all over Italy. Like, the general international public has this old-timey idea of the mafia that stops at the 1950s, with Al Capone, seedy bars, car chases with tommy guns etc. etc. or at least that seems to be the case for the people who don’t live in Europe, or otherwise close to Italy.

So, I made this poll. DISCLAIMER: this poll is NOT so i could judge people in any way. I can’t really fault anyone for not knowing about a problem so tied to Italian soil and culture, I was just curious.

NOTE: I’m not making a distinction between the actual Mafia, Camorra, Ndrangheta etc. etc. just pretend that all Italian organized crime is one big thing for the sake of this poll.

[tiarascrowns]

Historical and Important Natural Pearl and Diamond Tiara

From the Collection of Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Archduchess of Austria-Tuscany (1844-1899) Archduchess Maria Immaculata of Austria-Tuscany, Duchess of Württemberg (1878-1968)

Historical and important natural pearl and diamond tiara, Köchert, late 19th century

Of openwork, garland design, set with drop- to slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearls measuring approximately from 10.50 - 12.65 x 18.60mm to 7.70 - 7.75 x 9.70mm, set throughout with cushion-shaped and circular-cut diamonds, inner circumference approximately 240mm, unsigned, maker's marks for Köchert, Austrian assay marks for gold, screwdriver, brooch and comb fittings for the central element, two hairpin fittings, five central elements detachable, thirteen pearl pendants detachable, fitted case stamped Köchert.

Sotheby's

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)(1958)

We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of Marianna Marchesa Florenzi

Artist: Joseph Karl Stieler  (German, 1781–1858) 

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1831

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Medium: Nymphenburg Palace, Munich

Marchioness (in Italian marchesa) Marianna Florenzi (9 November 1802, Ravenna – 15 April 1870, Florence), née Marianna Bacinetti, was an Italian noblewoman, philosopher and translator of philosophical works. She was also known by her married name of Marianna Florenzi Waddington.

[yourdailyqueer]

Laudomia Forteguerri (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1515   

RIP: Died 1555

Ethnicity: White - Italian

Occupation: Poet, writer, nobility

Note 1: Led a group of women in helping with the construction of a defensive bastion to protect her city against an anticipated attack from Imperial Spanish forces. Forteguerri became a legendary figure in Sienese history and her legacy has lived on long after her death.

Note 2: She is considered by some historians to be Italy’s earliest lesbian writer.

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ November 20, 2010 ✵

Annemarie Gualthérie van Weezel & Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma