Maximilian, who preferred to be portrayed in profile, oozes a commanding serenity in the portraits on display, including one from 1502 by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis. The middle aged emperor looks ...

The titular character is Maximilian I. Born in Vienna, at the invitation of Napoleon III and exiled Mexican conservatives he chose to become emperor of Mexico, a country he had never seen.

His brother Maximilian I of Mexico was executed in 1867. Franz's younger brother, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria, took over the Mexican crown in 1863, per Britannica.

Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor 1459-1519 Notes Collation; pt. I: 2 p. l., pl. 1-68; pt. II: 2 p. l., pl. 69-135a. Nos. 124 and 135 followed, in numbering of plates, by 124a and 135a. Date 1873 Call ...

Maximilian’s feelings for Carlota did not, at first, seem to match hers for him. “She is very clever, which is a bit worrying, but no doubt I will get over that,” he wrote to Franz Josef ...