#polish duke

[spacehero-23]

Polish Pedro Pascal

[illustratus]

Duke Ernest the Iron rescues Cymburgis of Masovia by Franz Josef Dobiaschofsky

[a-frostitty-ninja]

[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.

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Bondageshipping board for anon

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[nikeatyquis]

今日の色🎇🌷

[breadandblankets]

Doug and Elaine Thomas met in a coffee shop at Gotham U, they struck up a conversation in line talking about everything from the weather to certain wildly unpopular school policy changes, they end up talking even after they get their orders (peppermint tea and a chocolate croissant for Elaine, cinnamon latte for Doug)

Doug secures his second date when he finds out Elaine has seen approximately Zero (0) movies and takes it up on himself to show her the world

[lesbiantoaster]

Lenore, barging into the hideout with Duke following shortly behind carrying a giant tire: Pluto! Get inside this tire! Pluto: but...why? Lenore, confidently: We'll roll you down the hill! Pluto: But I'm going to get hurt! Lenore: pfff Pluto, please... You'll be inside the tire... *points towards the tire Duke's holding* Pluto: ... Lenore: Have you ever seen a car crash? Pluto: Yes, I have! And the car is always completely crashed!!! Lenore, smugly: What about a tire... Pluto, with a realization: But the tires are always intact...

[unhonestlymirror]

I've just learnt that in Belaruthian, they call cockroaches "прусакі" - "prusaki"

[saurianssuck]

So obsessed I had to do my nails to match. 😁

[amaraudermind]

I truly believe Duke took one look at the Batfam and immediately took it as a challenge to be the Problem Child™ without ever officially joining the family

Sure he will hang around and cause issues and be a true nuisance but at the end of the day he sneaks out a side exit and heads back to his uncle's apartment where he can revel in his masterful work annoying the hell out of everyone in peace

[caracello]

dukie is so fucking cute i need to see her car. i think she has a bunch, but her favorite is probably some sports car with fuzzy dice on the rearview.

[limpfisted]

screaming crying punching a hole through a priceless painting

(act 3 spoilers)

[moontheoretist]

Reminds me about some novels I read at school, like The Doll by Prus. I look at the young Marchioness Eriteal and I think about Ewelina Janocka (they are not alike as far as personality and views go, but both are young noble women who had married older men).

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Snareshipping board for @diredaze

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