#Italian Nobility

[tiarascrowns]

Magnificent and Historic Natural pearl and diamond tiara/necklace

"One of the most important tiaras to appear at auction in recent years, this royal tiara dates to the second half of the 19th century. Steeped in the rich history of the House of Savoy, this tiara hails an extraordinary provenance. Likely to have been presented to Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo in 1867 as a wedding gift on the occasion of her marriage to Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, later elected King of Spain as Amadeo I (1870- 1873), the tiara, which has remained with the family for over 150 years, is believed to have been created by Musy Padre e Figli – Court Jeweller of Turin, and one of the oldest goldsmiths in Europe.

Composed of graduated scroll motifs set with cushion-shaped, circular- and single-cut diamonds, framing eleven slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearls, the jewel has more recently been seen worn as an elegant necklace.

The tiara is designed as a succession of eleven graduated scroll motifs, each composed of a natural pearl surrounded by old cut diamonds. The surmount rests on a detachable band composed of cluster and bar motifs set with cushion-shaped diamonds. The scroll motifs are detachable and may be adapted and worn as a necklace. The tiara, which was created by Musy, belonged to Maria Vittoria Carlotta Enrichetta Giovanna dal Pozzo della Cisterna (1847-1876), Duchess of Aosta and Queen of Spain."

Sotheby's

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[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Marchioness Barbara Berlingieri wore Archduchess Maria Anna's Ruby Bow Aigrette for Le Bal des Débutantes at the Shangri La Hotel in Paris on 25 November 2023.

#Tiara Alert #Marchioness Barbara Berlingieri #Marquesa Barbara Berlingieri #Italy #Italian Nobility #Italian Aristocracy #tiara #diadem #royal jewels #Le Bal des Debutantes #bow tiara #brooch #ruby

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ November 20, 2010 ✵

Annemarie Gualthérie van Weezel & Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma

#royal wedding #italian nobility #dutch royal family

[brother-emperors]

THE BROTHERS SFORZA

augh. there sure is a lot going on between them. tfw you know your older brother is wary of you so you have to navigate that fine line of proving you're useful, but not dangerously so. tfw your younger brother has the potential to be a knife in your back, but he's your brother. don't think too hard about what happened with the galeazzo. unfortunately, you're both visconti as well as sforza, and the visconti were prone to conspiracy. fucking RIP.

this definitely won't be upsetting years down the line when ascanio is near death and ludovico will be desperate to figure out how to bring his brother's body back to milan so ascanio can be interred in the same place as ludovico's recently deceased wife, beatrice d'este, and where ludovico himself has been haunting in a perpetual state of grief.

& the background of the first panel are public domain scans of two cards out of the visconti-sforza tarot deck.

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

#ABSOLUTELY BANANAS PHRASING abt one of these paragraphs btw #'metafora della sottomissione del figlio al padre' okay!! like going into that dynamic with your older brother is so. sooooooooooooo #like it makes sense. this is a dynast family. the father is dead. the eldest son was assassinated. #so now your older brother who was not the eldest brother WOULD assume the father-head of household role #and in the case of an emergency. you would fall into place as his right hand #which was. which was formerly occupied by your mother. and your older sister to the assassinated brother. so. WELL #that IS how you would prove you were useful to the state-household. it's just that. #NOBILITY IS SO FUCKING INSULAR ALL THE TIME. christ #the claustrophobia of being suspicious of your brother but having to rely on him #better to follow the plan your parents and eldest brother had in mind and marry him off to the church #italian renaissance tag #ascanio sforza #ludovico sforza #komiks tag #drawing tag #anyway eventually i'll figure out an art style i like for the renaissance cast. i think im getting close #but AUGH im still missing that feeling of 'yes. good.' im leaning towards the dead lineweight tho. that feels Right.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pimen Nikitich Orlov (Russian, 1812-1865) Group portrait of the sisters: writer Countess Elizaveta Vasilievna Salias de Tournemire, artist Sofia Vasilievna Sukhovo-Kobylina and Evdokia Vasilievna Petrovo-Solovo, 1847 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

#Pimen Nikitich Orlov #Pimen Orlov #russian art #russia #russian #1800s #italy #italian based artist #countess #noble #nobility #nobles #Elizaveta Vasilievna Salias de Tournemire #Sofia Vasilievna Sukhovo-Kobylina #Evdokia Vasilievna Petrovo-Solovo #art #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #fine arts #oil painting #europa #women in art #brunette #european fashion #painting

[illustratus]

The armoury of the nobleman Uboldo invaded by Milanese insurgents to obtain weapons on 19 March 1848

by Carlo Bossoli

#carlo bossoli #art #armoury #ambrogio uboldo #milan #italy #nobleman #nobility #lombardy #five days of milan #palace #weapons #rioters #insurgents #revolutionaries #antiques #antique #armour #first italian war of independence #unification of italy #risorgimento #revolutionary year of 1848 #revolutions of 1848 #europe #european #history #italian #ambrogio maria martiniano uboldo #heraldry #banners

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)(1958)

We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

#lampedusa #giuseppe tomasi di lampedusa #il gattopardo #the leopard #quote #novel #literature #film #cinema #movie #nobility #decline and fall #sicily #italian history #aristocracy #sicilian nobility #italy #society #social change #elites #ruling class #modernisation #old order #custom #heritage #arts #culture

[yourdailyqueer]

Laudomia Forteguerri (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1515   

RIP: Died 1555

Ethnicity: White - Italian

Occupation: Poet, writer, nobility

Note 1: Led a group of women in helping with the construction of a defensive bastion to protect her city against an anticipated attack from Imperial Spanish forces. Forteguerri became a legendary figure in Sienese history and her legacy has lived on long after her death.

Note 2: She is considered by some historians to be Italy’s earliest lesbian writer.

#Laudomia Forteguerri #lgbt history #lesbian history #sapphic #lgbtq #female #lesbian #1515 #rip #historical #white #italian #poet #writer #nobility #first #popular #popular post

[saviourkingslut]

not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

#le triomphe de trajan (1807) out here calling for a man's execution with this banger: #point de grace pour ce perfide; que tout sons sang coule sur un autel #(no grace for this treacherous man; let all his blood flow on an altar) #this is also annoying to me when people write historical fic and the characters treat the opera as this elitist thing #that they don't know anything about. #you know when they go to the opera reluctantly and then they have no idea what's going on on stage or who the composer is. #which is. very unlikely for anyone with the money to attend an opera in certain opera houses in the 19th c. tbqh #like im more of an expert on paris and vienna idk what it was like in london #but if you were decently (upper) middle class or nobility (esp in paris) you went regularly. this was like a whole social space too #i recently read a fanfic and one of the characters was like 'oh it's in italian. i don't know that' and the other character went like #'it's by a man called donizetti what did you expect' #(this was situated in 19th century london) #like first of all. donizetti was NOT a librettist he was a composer he did not write the text #and second of all. he worked on french operas ?? so did rossini. and spontini. #opera was an incredibly international art form. also bc productions would be performed in different countries all the time #(sometimes changed and/or translated but not necessarily) #and again like i said. this was one of THE main forms of entertainment. people were familiar with its conventions! it was well-liked! #ofc bc of the seating prices it was not very accessible to lower classes most of the time #but lbr most characters that get written into an opera scene in fiction are at the very least decently bourgeois lol #i wish people knew how to properly historicise forms of entertainment whose reputation has changed in the modern era #from what it was a century or more ago #very adjacent to people 'cancelling' old lit bc of 'bad takes' like idk how to tell you this but people thought different back then #completely different world view from what we have today. that does not make lit from that era irredeemable it is just from a diff. time #acknowledging that and reading the text critically but also still enjoying it are things that go tgt here #ok rant over (it is never over) #curry rambles

[chromet]

Villa Pietrobelli, Bertipaglia (PD), Italy

#count #villa #nobility #italian countryside #veneto #italy #venice

[madeleineengland]

Elisa di Rivombrosa; italian period drama (2003)

#elisa di rivombrosa #perioddramaedit #period drama #italian period drama #1700s #late 1700s #nobility #1700s fashion #old fashioned #period costume #elisa scalzi #fabrizio ristori #my edit #costumedit

[tiarascrowns]

Historical and Important Natural Pearl and Diamond Tiara

From the Collection of Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Archduchess of Austria-Tuscany (1844-1899) Archduchess Maria Immaculata of Austria-Tuscany, Duchess of Württemberg (1878-1968)

Historical and important natural pearl and diamond tiara, Köchert, late 19th century

Of openwork, garland design, set with drop- to slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearls measuring approximately from 10.50 - 12.65 x 18.60mm to 7.70 - 7.75 x 9.70mm, set throughout with cushion-shaped and circular-cut diamonds, inner circumference approximately 240mm, unsigned, maker's marks for Köchert, Austrian assay marks for gold, screwdriver, brooch and comb fittings for the central element, two hairpin fittings, five central elements detachable, thirteen pearl pendants detachable, fitted case stamped Köchert.

Sotheby's

#tiara #tiaras #diadem #diadems #hair ornament #hair pin #brooch #pendant #pendants #diamond #diamonds #pearls #pearl #kochert #italian nobility #italian aristocracy #tiara crown #tiaras crowns #tiarascrowns #tiaracrown

[tiaramania]

* Coronation Tiaras *

Princess Eugenie of Greece wore her Diamond Anthemion Tiara for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953.

#Princess Eugenie #Greece #Greece Royal Family #Coronation Tiaras #Princess Eugenie Radziwill #tiara #Princess Eugenie della Torre e Tasso #Italian Nobility #Duchess of Castel Duino #anthemion #honeysuckle tiara #meander tiara #diamond

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵October 7, 1971 ✵

Marina Ricolfi-Doria & Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy 

#royal wedding #italian nobility #italian aristocracy

[forgaeven1]

i'm tweaking these information at one point, but i'm thinking about old money wealth of both the longbottoms and zabinis and their respective origins, and i'm leaning towards longbottoms having quite a start in the mass wand productions across britain and scotland as far back as the 14th century, and the zabinis simply owning a lot of lands from italy to england.

#i mean.... whether [the longbottoms are] involved in the production by the 1990's? i'm not sure #because at that point the family have accumulated wealth so much to the point it's genuinely not a worry for them #and it wouldn't have made that much of a difference if they're actively in the business or otherwise #im also trying to build a fairly solid background #in the sense that if - during the medieval times - there had existed some sort of monarchy-adjacent government #mirroring the muggle world at that time #maybe longbottoms were intertwined with nobility at that time ( further establishing their name ) #though maybe it might've just been luck after all that they did end up in the sacred twenty-eight by the 1990s #while zabinis are probably from the high italian's aristocracy until a branch of that family moved to britain in the 1800s? #just... thoughts u know. #blaise. #neville. #blaise; headcanons. #neville; headcanons.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, c.1532-1625) Elizabeth de Valois (Queen consort of Spain) holding a Portrait of Philip II, 1561-65 Museo del Prado, Madrid

#Sofonisba Anguissola #italy #italian art #1500s #art #elizabeth de valois #fine art #portrait of a lady #fine arts #european art #italian peninsula #western civilization #16th century #woman #brunette #black hair #black eyes #noble #nobility #royal #royalty #Aristocracy #aristocrat #queen #queen of spain #queen consort #queen consort of spain #spain #spanish #spanish history