#house of Habsburg

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

To be fair everything was shit with Napoleon

[eobard-thawne]

ISABELLA OF PORTUGAL by Titian, 1548 JOANNA OF AUSTRIA by Sánchez Coello, 1557 ANNA OF AUSTRIA by Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1570

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Group photo of the Habsburg children ordered by height, 1924: l-r: Otto, Etelka, Róbert, Félix, Lajos Károly, Rudolf, Sarolta and Erzsébet. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[best-habsburg-monarch]

Napoleon II, Duke of Reichstadt

His mother's son (at least for the purposes of this bracket)

Philip II, King of Spain, King of Portugal, reigned 1556-1598

Instant discourse, just say the word 'armada'

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The Battle of Rocroi "Rocroi, the Last Tercio" by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

[victusinveritas]

There's some life in Twitter yet

[elsalouisa]

"The Empress was delightful. She spoke of the Queen in well chosen, simple terms, as of a friend dear to her. This was her way of speaking about almost everything. Her conversation was of a high order, but at the same time it was absolutely natural. She scarcely ever spoke harshly, and always in low and pure tones. She possessed a soulful voice — muffled crystal, but crystal all the same. I have never seen a smile like hers; it was like a smile from Heaven; it enchanted me and it affected me, it was at the same time both sweet and grave. She was beautiful, a celestial beauty with something ethereal in the purity of her features and the lines of her figure. No one walked like Elizabeth of Austria; the movement of her limbs was imperceptible, she glided; she seemed to float on the ground. I have often read that some celebrated and adored woman was endowed with " inimitable grace." The Empress Elizabeth truly possessed this inimitable grace. And her large eyes seemed to speak and express a noble language peculiarly their own, which embodied the three virtues. Faith, Hope and Charity.

Bavaria, her birthplace, has retained throughout the ages the essential elements of the Celtic race established as far as the Danube. South Germany also has this ancient European blood in abundance. The Empress represented the most refined characteristics of Celtic beauty. She was not a German type — at least not a type of Central Germany — she expressed to perfection, both morally and physically, all that separated and will continue to separate Munich and Vienna from Berlin".

Princess Louise of Belgium "My own affairs"

[taniatas]

[marianadecarlos]

Charles II of Spain with his two wives and his Family Fanart

I was fascinated by Charles II and his family decided to create this artwork. It took three weeks to complete. the upper left on the top is Don Juan Jose of Austria, the upper middle is Mariana of Austria, and the upper right is Philip IV. Margarita Theresa is on the left while Leopold is on the right. In the middle is Charles II with his two wives the one on the left is Marie Louise de Orleans, the one on the right is Maria Anna of Neuburg

[promises-of-paradise]

On this day in 1832, Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt, passed away from tuberculosis, aged 21.

Napoleon II is a person who has a lot of emotional significance to me, and so I wanted to draw him for the anniversary of this death. It ended up being a very cathartic experience so thank you Franz :')

rest in peace angel 🕊

[tiny-librarian]

She herself took a more disillusioned view. Among intimates, she occasionally spoke of herself as "la grosse Therese," fat Theresa. Writing to Antonia of Saxony in October 1749, at the age of just thirty-two, she declared herself old and overweight; anyone who had not seen her in the last ten years would fail to recognize her. And to her favourite lady-in-waiting, Trautson, she lamented in 1754: "Those who had not seen me in either years could hardly get over how obese I had become. It must be quite remarkable; but to sugar the pill, they assured me they found my complexion fairer and much improved. Still that does nothing to undo the first blow." Yet even those who met her in the 1770s mostly described her as still beautiful, despite her considerable girth and the pockmarks left behind by an attack of smallpox.

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time - Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

[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: 🙃🙃🙃

[makosxa]

Maria Theresa doodles ;_D

[pokadandelion]

Empress Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria-Hungary

[best-habsburg-monarch]

Maria Leopoldina, Empress of Brazil, reigned from 1822-1826

This Barbie made Brazil independent

Napoleon II, Duke of Reichstadt

Died young but loved in this bracket

Please go read @archduchessofnowhere's post about their relationship here. It is very sweet.

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Allegory of Painting under the House of Habsburg

Attributed to Bartholomäus Strobel d.Y. and Bartholomeus Spranger