The Content Reader

This meme is hosted by  Guiltless Reading  and it is all about bookmarks This week I present three fantastic bookmarks (although two are postcards) printed from paintings exhibited in Castle Ambras in Innsbruck. They have three floors of marvellous paintings of the Habsburg family. On their website Castle Ambras you can read the following on the portraits. "Habsburg portrait gallery   The Portrait Gallery contains over 200 likenesses, including paintings by Lukas Cranach, Titian, Anton van Dyck and Diego Velázquez. Most of the Habsburgs and numerous other rulers are represented by portraits—including Emperor Maximilian I, Emperor Charles V, King Phillip II of Spain, the young Maria Theresia and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Of special interest are the numerous portraits of children, such as the picture of the three-year-old Eleonora Gonzaga which is attributed to Rubens.   No family influenced the history of Europe over the centuries to the extent that ...