#king of poland

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in Coronation Robes

Artist: Marcello Bacciarelli (Polish-Italian, 1731–1818)

Date: c. 1790

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: National Museum in Krakow, Poland

Stanisław August Poniatowski

Stanisław August [Stanislaus Augustus] Poniatowski was elected king of Poland in 1764. Especially at the beginning of his reign, he was neither very popular with the nobility nor as influential as his rich family, the Czartoryski Familia. Therefore, he needed a formal portrait emphasizing the special significance of his person as the king of Poland and strengthening the conviction about the lawfulness of his rule, actually assumed with the considerable support of Russia. Moreover, European courts, for example in Vienna and Versailles, were interested in possessing a portrait of the new Polish king. The newly elected monarch sought a talented portraitist, familiar with the latest trends in Western European art, who would be able to paint a splendid formal portrait. He wished to entrust this task to Marcello Bacciarelli, an Italian painter who had stayed at the court of Augustus III the Saxon in Warsaw for several years, leaving in the country a large number of excellent portraits of aristocrats. The king did not want to be portrayed in armor, but in the formal dress that he was wearing during the coronation ceremony: a coat lined with ermine fur, decorated with Polish eagles, a frock coat and trousers, with his hand rested against the baton of the military commander and royal regalia lying on the table beside him. Taking the king's instructions into consideration, Bacciarelli painted the portrait following the en gala pattern dating back to the time of the French absolute rulers, but in the more recent Rococo style. The king's pose was light, refined, elegant and graceful, which was in tune with the fashion of the day. The monarch noted down in his diary that the portrait caught the best likeness of him.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[dreamconsumer]

Henry VI of Carinthia (1265-1335). Unknown artist.

He married Princess Anna of Bohemia. After the death of Anne's brother in 1306, Henry was elected king of Bohemia and titular king of Poland.

[thefreelancehistorywriter]

St Jadwiga of Anjou, the King of Poland – A guest post by Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcik

Jadwiga as depicted by Jan Matejko. Imaginary portrait based on a series of drawings the artist made upon examining her resting place in 1187. The Freelance History Writer is pleased to welcome back Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcik with an exclusive article on an exceptional woman from Polish medieval history. In January 1887, a group of scholars and artists explored the grave of Jadwiga [Hedwig] of…

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[polishdynasty]

JADWIGA OF POLAND in the armor in season 3 ep 324

[wikitpowers]

A MAGICAL ROAD TRIP OMFG I AM LOAING MY BLOODY MIND WTF WTF WTF!/!/)/7-&

[bastardofharrenhal]

my only take abt Sansa as ruler of the North is that instead of Queen she should call herself King in the North bc women using male titles has and always will go hard af

[royalchildreneurope]

King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Queen Máxima of The Netherlands and Princess Catharina-Amalia of The Netherlands attend the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Auschwitz, Poland -January 27th 2025.

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[stompanieart]

got pączki for fat tuesday from the local bakery and they were still warm when i got home, god bless us everyone

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of Sigismund III Vasa in Coronation Robes

Artist: Pieter Soutman (Dutch, c. 1593/1601–1657)

Date: c. 1624

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Staatsgalerie Neuburg, Neuburg an der Donau, Germany

Sigismund III Vasa

Sigismund III Vasa (20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Religiously zealous, he imposed Catholicism across the vast realm, and his crusades against neighbouring states marked Poland's largest territorial expansion. As an enlightened despot, he presided over an era of prosperity and achievement, further distinguished by the transfer of the country's capital from Kraków to Warsaw.

Sigismund was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland. Elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, he sought to unify Poland and Sweden under one Catholic kingdom, and when he succeeded his deceased father in 1592 the Polish–Swedish union was created. Opposition in Protestant Sweden caused a war against Sigismund headed by Sigismund's uncle Charles IX, who deposed him in 1599.

[houseofbrat]

The King’s back at work and just announced he will travel to Poland this month. Anne is off to South Africa, Edward and Sophie to Nepal…and Willy and Cathy are on vacation 😂

Can't say I'm surprised.

George, Charlotte, and Louis are back in school. Kate is a stay-at-home mom, and William doesn't have any publicly declared engagements until Thursday.

Everyone else is out working except the two forty-year olds, but they'll continue having the KP comms team pretend as if Charles is going to keel over any day now because that's how William justifies his imagined superiority.

William won't work. Is he even a Windsor? Why do people pretend he's the grandson of Philip Mountbatten? Philip was a workhorse and and would do his duty to the point where he was physically unable to do so. Is William really related to Philip? You have to wonder at this point.

William acts like he's pure Spencer, just like his brother.

[dreamconsumer]

Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and the Zwinger Palace, Dresden.

[emochan1800]

telegram: tvarkys

[nonuggetshere]

Almost forgot to post this fucker

The first 3 are more casual, the 4th one is what he wears to political meetings and the last one is what he wears in public (+ fullbody veil but I got sick of drawing this so no veil for the ref)