Content Creation & Fine Art Photography
Content Creation & Fine Art Photography
With one eye laughing, Austrians went off to war in 1914 with flowers and tinsel in their hats. They quickly realized they would need helmets. What’s more, they started it. In a tinder keg of aggression – with Wilhelm II of Germany and Great Britain building up their naval fleets
Continue readingWorld War One Memorial, Dom, Graz, Austria 2
If nothing else, the Habsburgs believed in making a grand exit. In 1614, Archduke Ferdinand commissioned his beloved court architect Giovanni Pietro de Pomis to build his Mausoleum and St. Catherine’s Church (both pictured here). But when Ferdinand became Emperor and de Pomis died, the half-finished Mausoleum was left to
Continue readingMausoleum & St. Catherine’s Church, Graz, Austria 1
The golden Mausoleum of Ferdinand II and its church are the brainchild of Giovanni Pietro de Pomis. Muli-talented Italians have a long history of prettifying Graz. A Lombardian by birth, de Pomis was the court artist and favored pet of Ferdinand II. Like Domenico dell’Allio, de Pomis earned his keep as
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Here lies Emperor Ferdinand II, scourge of the Protestants, protector of the faith, and – to be honest – a Class A twit. Born in Graz in 1578, Ferdinand II was educated by Jesuits. At that time, Protestantism was the dominant religion in his homeland: “According to later estimates, no