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Offline KarlandZita

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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #495 on: June 08, 2008, 09:05:05 AM »
The two famous portraits of Elisabeth by Whinterhalter :





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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #496 on: June 08, 2008, 10:56:50 AM »
My favourites portraist of all royal ladies..the third one is wonderful too.:-)
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #497 on: August 09, 2008, 01:38:39 AM »
Quote from: MarieCharlotte on October 15, 2006, 02:52:11 AM
By the way:
Why do you always spell her name in the kitschy version S I S S I, although it is known that Elisabeth herself wanted her name to be written with only one 's' ?


This entire question(Sisi vs. Sissy) is covered on the Hofburg website under FAQ :)
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #498 on: August 21, 2008, 03:26:58 PM »
Franz Xaver Winterhalter



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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #499 on: August 22, 2008, 03:06:15 AM »
This one was Franz Joseph's favorite portrait of his wife. He kept it in his study in Hofburg untill his death.
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #500 on: August 22, 2008, 05:29:32 AM »
I am a bit surprised that Franz Joseph liked that pictures so much, for me it's not too typical for Elisabeth, the face....on many pictures she looks differently. I would not have recognized her at once. It seems it really depends on the artist, how the people's portraits were at that time...
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« Reply #501 on: August 22, 2008, 10:41:27 AM »
Indeed...One must remember he used to see the "real thing" every morning...It bought back happy memories to poor Franz Josef...
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #502 on: September 29, 2008, 08:06:37 AM »
Parents of Empress Elisabeth towards the end of their life :



Older Duchess Ludovika :




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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #503 on: September 29, 2008, 02:04:17 PM »
Yes Mimi or Mutti to her children.
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #504 on: September 30, 2008, 10:38:32 AM »
Ikone ewiger Schönheit!







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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #505 on: September 30, 2008, 12:27:17 PM »
One of the few sessions that the Empress "allowed" herself to be photographed.
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« Reply #506 on: October 01, 2008, 12:40:39 PM »
wasnt it only later in life that Sissi refused to be photographed? thats what i read but im not sure...i mean does that explain why there arent that many pictures of her in later life?
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #507 on: October 04, 2008, 07:14:21 AM »
Quote from: KarlandZita on September 29, 2008, 08:06:37 AM
Parents of Empress Elisabeth towards the end of their life :



Older Duchess Ludovika :







It's nice and interesting to see especially Sisis mother in that old age, as her daughter did not want to be photographed when becoming older. Evidently Ludovika was not like that, and did not have anything against seeing herself with an older skin...
Does anyone know about her, if she was not that crazy about being "beautiful" and being "always young" like Sisi was? I think becoming older is a natural process and her mother seems to have been more "normal" about that point. What do others think?
All in all very nice new pictures!
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #508 on: October 04, 2008, 04:18:54 PM »
Sisi was a famed beauty and an empress, while her mother has lots more babies and only a duchess in Bavaria. Sisi associated her popularity with her beauty, that is why she wanted to protect the image of the lovely empress.
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #509 on: October 04, 2008, 04:56:43 PM »
But Ludovika was very pretty too. It was rumoured, that she was( in her youth) even more beautiful then her famous daughter.
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