The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait
Olivia Gruber Florek, "The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait "
English | ISBN: 1644532867 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 27 MB
English | ISBN: 1644532867 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 27 MB
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth’s role in producing her public portraiture or the influence of her creation.
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