#Ferdinand I

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"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: 🙃🙃🙃

[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,

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[tiny-librarian]

From the Collection of Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Duchess of Württemberg (1899-1958)

Ruby and diamond brooch, circa 1915

Designed as a fleur-de-lys set with a hexagonal and two triangular fancy-cut diamonds, outlined by calibré-cut rubies, numbered, brooch fitting detachable.

This brooch was likely given by Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria as a sixteenth birthday present to his youngest daughter Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria in 1915. She is depicted wearing it in a portrait dated 1915. The fleur-de-lys motif is a reference to the family of her mother, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma as well as to the family of her paternal grandmother, Princess Clémentine of Orléans.

[best-habsburg-monarch]

Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, reigned 1740-1780

No one has ever girlboss-ed harder

From anon:

- chucked into ruling at age 23. while pregnant

- no prep!!!! Prussia invades Silesia!!! Ministers fucking around for their own provincial interests instead of for the Whole !!!!! and she has to somehow cope with all of this ....

- ALL WHILE being pregnant with Joseph (II) and we know that guy was just as ornery in utero as he was irl

- she's everything! He (Francis) is just ....Ken.

- YAS QUEEN rediversify that gene pool

- originally reluctant to participate in the 1st partition of poland (who wants galicia let's be real)

Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, reigned 1835-1848

Probably the person who was most relieved about his own abdication

from anon:

Whatever learning or mental disability he suffered from, he was far from untalented. He spoke five languages, played the trumpet and the piano, and had a keen interest in technology natural sciences. He even founded the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

He's mostly blameless when it comes to policies of the Austrian state before 1848, which is probably why he remained popular throughout his life. Well, that and his charity.

Had a surprisingly good relationship with his wife, considering he might not have even been capable of consumating the marriage.

Proved to be a capable manager of his estates after the abdication.

Generally seems like a fairly chill guy, hence the moniker "The Benevolent".

[jonathanharker]

breastplate armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1549. 170.2 cm (67.0 in), 24 kg. metropolitan museum of art, nyc.

[acrossthealternateuniverse]

AU: Anne Boleyn marries Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. (requested by anonymous)

Read on AO3

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Ferdinand I of Austria (1793-1875) as King of Hungary. By Joseph Bayer.

[tiodolma]

"You protect yourself from a betrayal that hasn't existed, so you betray me."

Ferdinand I (from Carlos Rey Emperador,2015)

[cparti-mkiki]

unfortunately, it is not a west euro museum without charles v. here also featuring philip ii and ferdinand i

[diezmil10000]

A girl like you

versión original en español, Una chica como tú

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Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Konig Kohler, 2023

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Typography Tuesday

Sometimes, things in our collection still surprise me, even after 29 years. From our fairly sizable manuscript facsimile collection, I was surprised I had never encountered this little (5 X 7 in.) reproduction of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 

As the relatively new invention of printing came to dominate the production of books by the 1500s, the calligraphic inventiveness of scribes became prized for their aesthetic qualities rather than their production value. 

From 1561 to 1562, Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created this Model Book of Calligraphy in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand's grandson, commissioned the [Flemish painter] Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate Bocskay's model book. 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. -- Getty Museum Collection webpage.

Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Today we only show 11 pages from the facsimile, but we hope to present more from this highly-inventive manuscript of calligraphic virtuosity in the future.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[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

[alexiadraws]

I got really into fire emblem three houses while I was gone

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hubert’s love language

[anophiles]

what if he doesn't want it to mean anything?? (lie)

this post has been haunting me