Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles V, Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, once picked up a paintbrush Titian had dropped and handed it to him with the words, "Titian deserves to be served by Caesar." The female magnificence of Titian's Danae and the male craftiness of his Pope Paul III in last week's show confirmed the emperor's judgment. Philip IV, Habsburg King of Spain, had patronized Diego Velasquez, whose pictures of the king's little daughter, the stiffly costumed Infanta Margareta Teresa, were among the most brilliant and humanly pathetic portraits ever painted...
After six centuries of growth, the Habsburg collection was appropriated in 1918 by the Austrian Republic. Stored in salt mines during World War II, it was recovered by General Patton's Third Army, and sent on a triumphal tour of Europe and the U.S. by liberated Austria. For the transatlantic crossing, the collection was packed into the hold of a refrigerated Navy supply ship (hold temperature...
Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
Married. Archduchess Agnes Christine of Habsburg, 20, great-granddaughter of Austria's late Emperor Franz Josef; and Prince Karl Alfred, 38, brother of Franz Josef II, reigning prince of Liechtenstein; in Castle Persenbeug, Austria...
...soon too far gone to devote himself for long to anything. Out of a mouselike hatred for his father's regime, he wrote a number of anonymous leading articles for the liberal Neues Wiener Tagblatt; but when a radical stood up in Parliament and denounced the House of Habsburg, Rudolph reverted to type and had the man horsewhipped. He spent hours updating his "Register of Conquests"; if the lady was wellborn, she got a silver cigarette box engraved with his signature-if she was a commoner, it bore only his coat of arms...