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The Celebrity Monarch - Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait (Paperback)
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The Celebrity Monarch - Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait (Paperback)
Series: Performing Celebrity
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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. The Celebrity Monarch reveals how portraits of
Elisabeth transformed monarchs from divinely appointed sovereigns
to public personalities whose daily lives were consumed by
spectators. With resources ranging from the paintings of Gustav
Klimt and Elisabeth’s private collection of celebrity photography
to twenty-first century collages and films by T. J. Wilcox, this
book positions Elisabeth herself as the primary engineer of her
public image and argues for the widespread influence of her
construction on both modern art and the emerging phenomenon of
celebrity.
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