Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
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The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, commonly called the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1815 to 1866. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of
An Austrian herald's tabard (German: Wappenrock) with the coat of arms of Lombardy-Venetia (1834) – Imperial Treasury, Vienna
The Return of the Horses of San Marco by Vincenzo Chilone, 1815
Lombardy–Venetia (1853) and its major cities
Maximilian I of Mexico
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Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Restored Republic of Mexico on 19 June 1867.
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
…governor-general. The office was initially assumed by Field Marshal Radetzky — upon his retirement in 1857, it passed to Franz Joseph's younger brother Maximilian (who later became emperor of Mexico), who served as governor-general in Milan from 1857 to 1859. After the Second Italian War of Independence and the…
Formal portrait, c. 1864
Maximilian as a boy, 1847, by Joseph Karl Stieler
Maximilian in uniform, painted in 1853
Maria Amélia of Brazil by Friedrich Dürck, painted between 1837 and 1839