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Maximilian I (German: Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen, Spanish: Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
The Execution of Emperor Maximilian is a series of paintings by Édouard Manet from 1867 to 1869, depicting the execution by firing squad of Emperor Maximilian I of the short-lived Second Mexican Empire. Manet produced three large oil paintings, a smaller oil sketch and a lithograph of the same subject. All five works were brought together for ...
Execution of Emperor Maximilian is one of the few works in which Manet seeks a dramatic effect. The painting illustrates the climax of a well-known historical episode. Napoleon III intervened in Mexico to prevent it from gravitating toward the United States, for which he had no sympathy and which was at that time too involved in the Civil War ...
3 days ago · Maximilian (born July 6, 1832, Vienna, Austria—died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex.) was an archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution.
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Early morning on 19 June 1867 the Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian (1832–1867), was executed alongside two of his generals at Querétaro, north of Mexico City. An Austrian archduke, he had been installed in Mexico as a puppet emperor by Napoleon III of France to succeed the republican president Benito Juárez.
Jan 27, 2021 · A military court ordered Maximilian to face execution. This move caused a backlash among some of Europe’s prominent figures. Juarez decided to go through with the sentence because he wanted to send a message that Mexico would not be interfered with by Europe ever again. Maximilian faced execution by firing squad on June 19, 1867.
His execution in 1867 sent shock waves through Europe. The culminating work in series of compositions treating the same subject produced by Manet between 1867 and 1869, the Execution of Maximilian depicts a contemporary event of political significance. The firing squad and the condemned men—Maximilian and two of his generals—are clearly ...
