#Maria Antonia of Austria

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Marie Antoinette and her Children, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1787.

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Portrait by Benjamin von Block (Here, Leopold was content to grab the nearest tablecloth with which to drape himself. Not to bad effect, mind you.) He may not have been handsome but he certainly had a flair for fashion!

The outrageous, extravagant, sometimes quizzical, and often humorous outfits worn by subjects of old portraits.

Half-assed History Lesson. Expect errors. Feel free to correct.

Here he is again, the banner-boy of this blog - Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia ! (If I were speaking it, I'd be out of breath!) Leopold of the famous, in-bred Habsburg jaw.

 Because his jaw was depicted unusually large on a 1670 silver coin, Leopold was nicknamed "the Hogmouth"; however, most collectors do not believe the coin was an accurate depiction.

Portrait of Margaret Theresa of Spain by an unknown artist, c. 1662–1664, currently displayed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

So, Leopold had been waiting for years to marry his niece, Margaret Theresa of Spain. When she was a mere 15 years of age, she married Uncle Leopold who was also Cousin Leopold. By marriage to him, Margaret became Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. Gotta catch my breath again. Though she kept her Spanish customs and never learned German, she fondly referred to her husband as "Onkle". How quaint.

There is a resemblance, don't you think? Who would've guessed.

The couple had a gaggle of children but only a couple made it to adulthood. One such was Maria Antonia Josepha Benedicta Rosalia Petronella. As one would expect, she bears an especially strong likeness to her parents.

In fact, Maria Antonia had the highest coefficient of inbreeding in the House of Habsburg. As we know, her father was her mother's maternal uncle and paternal first cousin once removed. Her maternal grandparents were also uncle and niece. Her coefficient was higher than that of a child born to a parent and offspring, or brother and sister. Despite this, it is written in the Wikipedia entry about her that she was intelligent and cultivated, sharing her parents' aptitude for music.

Portrait of Maria Antonia by an unidenfied artist

This concludes The Resplendent Outfit Half-assed History Lesson. I'm sure there are errors. Feel free to point them out.

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Late Louis XIV style (from top to bottom) -

Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon 1676-1753 ("Elisabeth-Charlotte de Bavière") by François de Troy (Sotheby's - 26Jan12 auction Lot 213). Cropped & erased most obvious spots & cracks w Pshop 2880X3757 @72 3.9Mj. Sometimes called Liselotte of the Palatinate.

1690s Gentlewoman by Antonio Franchi (Palazzo Pitti - Firenze, Toscana, Italy). From tumblr.com-blog-view-history-of-fashion; erased spots w Pshop & filled shadows 40% 1541X1946 @150 1.1Mj.

ca. 1696 Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria, Maria Antonia of Austria, & son Joseph Ferdinand (b. 1692) by F. C. Bruni (Der Residenz - München, Bayern, Germany). From tumblr.com/blog/view/catherinedefrance; erased spots w Pshop.

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spouses of jacobite pretenders/heir-general of the Stuart pretenders during their tenure

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Ferdinando e Carolina (1999)

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Portraits of Princess Maria Antonia of Parma, who died on this day, February 20th, in 1841.

She was the third child and second daughter of Maria Amalia of Austria and Ferdinand of Parma. She was named after her godmother, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, and not after her father’s sister, Marie Antoinette, as is often supposed.

She never married and became an Ursuline Nun, changing her name to Sister Louise Marie.

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Maria Antonia of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (1669-1692) by Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776), posthumous portrait painted in mid 18th century

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King Ludwig Ist's Gallery of Beauties.

A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07

The Gallery of Beauties (Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 small portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich, Germany painted between 1827 and 1850 (mostly by Karl Joseph Stieler, appointed court painter in 1820) and gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. Two additional ones were created by Friedrick Drück and one portrait was stolen in the XXth century and remains missing.

The set includes all the 38 portraits, with the original frame swatches, fully recolorable. The portraits are of:

Friederike von Gumppenberg (later Baroness von Gumppenberg).

Amalia von Schintling.

Amalie Maximilianovna von Krüdener (née von Lerchenfeld) Baroness von Krüdener.

Anna Hillmayer.

Anna von Greiner (née Bartelmann)

Antonietta Cornelia Vetterlein.

Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Princess of Bavaria.

Auguste Strobl (first version).

Auguste Strobl (second version).

Baroness Mathilde von Jordan.

Carlotta von Boos zu Waldeck (née von Breidbach-Bürresheim) Baroness von Breidbach-Bürresheim.

Caroline Maximiliana Maria von Holnstein (née von Spiering) Countess von Holnstein aus Bayern

Elise List (later Elise Pacher von Theinburg

Eliza Rosanna James (née Gilbert), Known ss Lola Montez.

Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr.

Irene Pallavicini, Marchioness Pallavicini and Countess von Arco un Steppberg.

Isabella, Countess von Traufkirchen-Engelberg.

Jane Elizabeth Digby, Later Baroness von Venningen.

Josepha Conti (née Reh).

Karolina Lizius.

Katharina Rosa Botsaris in a Traditional Greek Costume.

Lady Theresa Spence (née Renard) as Sapho of Lesbos.

Maria Dietsch (In prayer, first version).

Maria Dietsch (second version).

Marianna Florenzi (née Bacinetti) Marchioness Florenzi.

Marie Friederike Franziska Hedwig of Prussia, Crown Princess of Bavaria.

Maximiliane Borzaga.

Nanette von Kaulla.

Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria.

Caroline von Oettingen-Wallerstein (later Countess von Waldbott-Bassenheim.

Regina Daxenberger.

Rosalie Julie von Bonar (née von Wüllerstorf-Urbair) Baroness von Bonar.

Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhemine, Archduchess of Austria (née Princess of Bavaria).

The Actress Charlotte von Hagn-Schwab as Thekla in Schiller's "Wallenstein".

The Actress Friederica Katharina "Willhemine" Sulzer.

The Dancer Antonia Wallinger as Hebe.

The Honourable Emily Mikbanke-Huskisson (née Mansfield)

The Honourable Jane Plumer-Callander (née Erskine)

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"let them eat cake."

if you're familiar with this abridged term of what was assumed to have been said many years ago then you already have a good idea of where i'm going with this.

in the most recent breakdown video genshin impact has released explaining their train of thought & conceptual process for furina they didn't really go into too much detail about how much influence was borrowed from the once queen of france marie antoinette for furina's character. i was a bit surprised, but not entirely considering that going into too much detail about historical matters, especially of history from another nation entirely can get you into hot water as a huge company making a profit out of it.

it's very simple to simply say that the out of touch factor was what really connected the two of them, what was a huge parallel which i absolutely 100% agree with but it goes deeper than that. & then of course the cake.

it goes well beyond the simple out of touch monarchy because marie antoinette was not this heartless & disgusting ruler as she was painted out to be by historians. her intentions were never malicious. however was she out of touch? yes. did her people suffer because of how out of touch the monarchy was? absolutely, yes, i'm not going to deny that, it's in the history books. so in order to understand just how much inspiration there really is you must first get to know who marie antoinette was, not as the queen, but her journey towards that & then eventually culminating in her being the queen.

marie antoinette (her original name being maria antonia) was born in austria to maria teresa, the empress of austria who, may i add, had been successfully ruling austria by her own hand without a man (which was a huge deal back in those times). since marie's birth a role had already been assigned & given to her, she was to be both a liaison but most importantly a breeder whose sole purpose was to continue a dynasty. that was marie's role in life & that's what was expected of her.

this parallels nicely when focalors separated her divinity entirely & left behind a solid form of herself made out of her will, humanity, & spirit with no memories whatsoever aside from knowing about the prophecy down to the very last detail. focalor's divinity named this reflection of herself furina, the name she would more than likely have liked to have if she was never ascended to the divine throne & was given her wish of remaining human. just like marie, furina had her role, she was meant to play the role of the hydro archon & never get found out or everybody around her was going to be paying the price for that slipup.

marie, when married, suffered great shame & ridicule because of her husband's lack of sex drive. it was unbecoming, especially for those in the monarchy to not consummate their marriage & it was actually a scary thing because at the time the church actually had the power to abolish a marriage if it wasn't consummated. remember that marie was given a role from birth, she was to be a liaison & most importantly a breeder. the fact that she couldn't consummate her marriage made many judge her harshly within the monarchy.

this parallels with furina when she was standing before her people for the first time & attempted to be herself but instead got met with critiques & people simply not want to accept her that way because that wasn't who they thought their god should be like. though of course this shame & ridicule would follow her for the rest of her life.

marie showed signs of her compassion & kindness towards her people, often being sad & miserable when she found out that tragedy struck the commonfolk. in a spring festival in 1770 left many dead because workers had left trenches uncovered. pained by this loss, marie made her entire year's salary go towards the families of the victims to that tragedy & it was said that she was absolutely inconsolable for days (note that marie had yet to become queen & thus was not of age yet, she didn't become queen of france until she was 19).

i bring this specific example up because i'm reminded of the poisson incident & just how miserable furina was when she found out about it, because lives were lost then & was actually something the game itself wanted to show us. i would argue she has mourned multiple times in the past but that's a headcanon for another time.

like furina, marie suffered from constant pressure from what was expected of her & because of this, marie overindulged herself further & further to cope with that pressure which only made the image of her as a foreign wife to a french monarch much, much worse. she wasn't just struggling to conceive because her husband's sex drive was so low, but the expectations set upon her role from birth & now as royalty in france was simply too much to handle. however, all of this overindulgence contributed to her being so out of touch, being so ignorant to the struggles that were happening to the commonfolk & it further increased the commonfolk's hatred towards her more & more.

another parallel with furina, furina, though hardly if at all, attempted to find some sort of comfort in her lonely role. theater, singing, acting, sweets, fashion. the pressure of the prophecy hanging above her head & failing day in & day out on how to prevent it took a huge major tole on her mental health. however because of this, she also became out of touch with what was going on down in the grounds of the home & land she loved so much & thus the perception of her through her people became worse, it became damaged, to the point where she also began to get hated, naturally so. not only did it look like she wasn't doing anything about the prophecy but it also looked like she wasn't caring for them. of course they would grow to dislike her.

like marie, furina was also someone who wasn't necessarily taken seriously by her people. it goes back to how furina is described as being more of a celebrity than an archon. they didn't see a goddess to a degree, they saw a public figure & there were a major portion of fontaine that loved that about her, but of course there were those who weren't okay with that naturally. she's your goddess, she's supposed to be involved, she's supposed to help make things better. unbeknownst to them she was definitely trying to save them by obsessing over the prophecy - the role given to her at birth because it was going to save everybody - even if in the process she left her people & home unattended when what they really might have wanted was her attention the most.

the trial & execution is the most glaring parallel i wager, so i don't think i need to go into detail about it even if there are some interesting little between the lines here & there that i was able to find.

i tried to structure this as best as i could, but the point i'm trying to make in all of this is that one of the biggest parallels between marie & furina that nobody can argue about is that they were both victims of circumstance, but being victims of their own circumstances ended up making them blind towards the other hardships that were around them as well. that is the biggest parallel between the two, & it's such a tragic thing.

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🌿Photoshopping a room just to accept a ball - 📌 Lustheim Schloss in Schleißheim is one of the most festive buildings over Bavaria. It was designed by Henrico Zuccalli by order of Elector Max Emanuel II to celebrate his own wedding with Maria Antonia of Austria, and in this way, to celebra too the “upgrade” of the Wittelsbach family thanks to this join. The central space highlights by a big ballroom to probably, host big parties and host musicians and servants. As a pleasant pavilion, we find a great vault painted by Francesco Rosa, Giovanni Trubillio and Johann Anton Gumpp depicting hunt themes with goddess Diana. 🔍And what I edit in this photo? Lustheim is a great “case” for Meissen porcelains museum, and here we find more than 300 pieces in showcases. This central room was not an exception, full of refinated pieces, but wanted to share the empty space just to imagine it on its first use, a ballroom. @schloesserverwaltung.bayern - 🎵 Te Deum for the Victory at the Battle of Dettingen by Georg Friedrich Handel. Introduction - #palace #museo #rococo #architecture #palacio #baroque #arquitectura #admagazine #castle (en Schlossanlage Schleißheim) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTWi8bonaZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Our Contestants

1: Maria Leopoldina of Austria, First Empress of Brazil

2 Dona Maria I of Portugal

3: Dona Maria II of Portugal

4:  Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

5 Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon

6: João I, Duke of Bragança

7 João IV, King of Portugal

8: Afonso I, Duke of Bragança

9: Fernando I, Duke of Bragança

10: Jaime I, Duke of Bragança

11: Teodósio I, Duke of Bragança

12: Teodósio II, Duke of Bragança

13: Afonso VI of Portugal

14 Pedro II of  Portugal

15: João V of Portugal

16: João VI of Portugal

17: Pedro II of Portual

18 Pedro I of Brazil/ IV of Portugal

19: Miguel I of Portugal

20: Pedro V of Portugal

21: Luís I of Portugal

22: Carlos I of Portugal

23: Manuel II of Portugal

24 Dom Pedro II of Brazil

25: Teresa Cristina, Empress of Brazil.

26: Catherine de Bragança, Queen Consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland

27: Infante Dom Manuel, Candidate for the throne of Poland

28: José I of Portugal

29: Carol II of Romania (Carlos II in Portuguese)

30: Ferdinand I of Romania

31: Infantá Antonia de Bragança, Princess Consort of Hohenzollern

32: Amélie of Leuchtenberg

33: Infanta Isabel Maria, Regent of Portugal

34: Mariana Vitória of Spain, Queen Consort of Portugal

35: Maria Francisca of Savoy (Consort to Afonso VI and Pedro II)

36: Maria Pia of Savoy (Queen-Consort to Luís I of Portugal)

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do you have any fav pictures/portraits of empress sissy^^?

Hi! I already mentioned my favorite photographs on this ask. But I've never talked about my favorite portraits, so let's do that! To not be too obvious I'm going to omit Winterhalter's portraits, but I still love them (even if I'm a bit bored of them always being used as covers for Elisabeth's biographies).

Duchess Elisabeth and Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria, by Carl Haag, 1849. Little Elise! I just find this portrait of Elisabeth and her brother really cute, and there's even a good boy in it! What's not to love?

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, by Franz Schrotzberg, 1860. One of her best portraits as a young woman; no accessories, no sumptuous attire, just a simple hairstyle and a very striking profile. I wish it was used more often as a book cover.

Queen Elisabeth, by Bertalan Székely, 1869. My favorite state portrait of Elisabeth, mainly because this is the one in which you can see her coronation dress in more detail. The face isn't the best but that's the least important thing on a state portrait, I'm here for the symbolism, and Székely delivered.

Empress Elisabeth, by Georg Raab, 1873. This was Elisabeth's best look, fight me. In general I think the 1870s was the time she served looks the most, but in particular I like this portrait because she's looking right at you. Those eyes aren't empty, they know something that you don't, and I love that (oh and that jewelry? Inherited from a certain Maria Antonia, sometime Queen of France).

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, by Leopold Horowitz, 1899. Her best posthumous portrait, imo. She looks young like in all her portraits from this time, and yet there's something about her eyes that just tells you this isn't a young woman at all, but someone that has lived a long life. Ughh I love art AI could NEVER capture this feeling.

Queen Elisabeth and Archduchess Gisela at Gerbeaud, by Márk Lajos, 1900. The quality of the picture sucks but I just love this one because is so odd to see Elisabeth depicted with Gisela, specially as an adult woman. I don't know the context for it but I'd love to, specially since is also a posthumous picture. Did someone commissioned it for Gisela? Did this scene actually took place or is a creation of the artist?

There are more that I like but these are some that come to my mind now!

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There’s a video made by a British little boy that answered what I wanted to know. She was related to Maria Antonia if Austria… aka Marie Antoinette

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I want to live like Marie Antoinette, but without lice and taking baths at least 4 times a week

Portrait of Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria by Martin van Meytens 1767-68

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Maria Carolina's costumes in Ferdinando e Carolina (1999)

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A photo of Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria (right), with two of her sisters, Maria Antonia and Francesca. Both women were Benedictine nuns at St. Cecilia's Abbey in Solesmes, along with another of their sisters, Maria della Neve Adelaide.