The life of Napoleon Buonaparte, emperor of the French : with a preliminary view of the French revolution.

Mode of access: Internet.

The boy life of Napoleon, afterwards emperor of the French.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of Peter the Great : Emperor of Russia /

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of Peter the Great, emperor of Russia.

Translation of : Histoire de l'empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand.

Památník na oslava padesátiletého panovnickeho junilea jeho veličenstva císarě a krále Frantiska Josefa I. Vědecký a umělecký rozvoj v narode českém, 1848-1898.

Mode of access: Internet.

Pictorial life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French : with numerous illustrative anecdotes of his court and times /

May have been written by John Frost.

The martyrdom of an empress;

Mode of access: Internet.

Die sammlungen der vereinten familien- und privat-bibliothek Sr. M. des kaisers ...

No more published?

Imperatori; fünf kaiserlieder ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Die Krönung in Mailand im Jahre 1838 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Life of Maximilian I late Emperor of Mexico, with a sketch of the Empress Carlota

UANL

Collecting the Painted Netherlands: The Art Collection of Ernest of Austria in Brussels

The (art) collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553-1595) is widely unknown when it comes to early-modern Habsburg collections. Ernest, younger brother of Emperor Rudolf II (b. 1552) and educated at the Madrid court, was appointed Governor-General of the Netherlands by King Philip II of Spain, his uncle, in summer 1593. Ernest relocated his court from Vienna to Brussels in early 1594 and was welcomed there with lavish festivities: the traditional Blijde Inkomst, Joyous Entry, of the new sovereign. Unfortunately, the archduke died in February 1595 after residing in Brussels for a mere thirteen months. This investigation aims to shed new light on the archduke and his short-lived collecting ambitions in the Low Countries, taking into account that he had the mercantile and artistic metropolis Antwerp in his immediate reach. I argue, that his collecting ambitions can be traced back to one specific occasion: Ernest’s Joyous Entry into Antwerp in June 1594. There the archduke received a series of six paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) known as The Months (painted in 1565), hanging today in separate locations in Vienna, New York and Prague. These works of art triggered Ernest’s collecting ambitions and prompted him to focus mainly on works of art and artefacts manufactured at or traded within the Netherlands during the last eight months of his lifetime. Additionally, it will be shown that the archduke was inspired by the paintings’ motifs and therefore concentrated on acquiring works of art depicting nature and landscape scenes from the 1560s and 1590s. On the basis of the archduke’s recently published account book (Kassabuch) and of the partially published inventory of his belongings, it becomes clear that Ernest of Austria must be seen in line with the better-known Habsburg collectors and that his specific collection of “the painted Netherlands” can be linked directly to his self-fashioning as a rightful sovereign of the Low Countries.

The Forgotten Archduke: The Funeral Monument for Ernest of Austria in Brussels

Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), second son of Emperor Maximilian II and younger brother of Emperor Rudolf II, was in his youth a possible candidate for the thrones of the Empire or the Spanish Kingdom. Instead, he became Governor-General of the Netherlands in 1593 and relocated to Brussels in 1594 where he was welcomed with lavish festivities as the bearer of hope and prosperity. Unfortunately, Ernest died only thirteen months later without having achieved any political success. His brother and successor Albert of Austria commissioned the funeral monument for Ernest in 1600 after it was settled that he would be buried in Brussels and not Vienna. Focusing on this monument, which draws stylistically from various dynasty-related models, it will be shown that Albert intended to use this monument – and thus his brother’s memoria – to make the Brussels Cathedral the primary location of Habsburg dynastic memory in the Low Countries.

History of the house of Austria /

v. 1-3. From the foundation of the monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the death of Leopold the Second. -- v. 4. Froom the aaccession of Francis I to the revolution in 1848 in continuation of the history written by Archdeacon Coxe [by Walter K. Kelly]; to which is added Genesis, or, details of the late Austrian revolution by an officer of state [Count Hartig]

High-resolution Keck I spectroscopy of Galactic halo post-asymptotic giant branch stars

Absolute and differential abundance analyses have been performed from high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio optical (Keck I) spectra for three evolved Galactic halo stars, namely PG 1704 + 222, HD 341617 and LSIV -0401. Their derived atmospheric parameters indicate that all three objects are undergoing a post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) phase of evolution. A differential abundance analysis reveals HD 341617 as having a mild carbon deficiency of 0.74 dex, possibly due to the star having evolved off the AGB before the onset of the third dredge-up. Although such carbon underabundances are typical of hot post-AGB objects, the same trend is not observed in PG 1704 + 222, where the carbon abundance is found to be consistent with those derived for nitrogen and oxygen. Hence, a dredge-up scenario need not be invoked to explain the chemical composition of PG 1704 + 222. For LSIV -0401 no iron deficiency is apparent relative to magnesium and silicon, and hence a gas- dust separation event in the AGB progenitor need not be invoked for this star.