Category Archives: Ecclesiastical

Annibale Albani 1682-1751

Annibal Albani, born in Urbino in 1682 and died in Rome in 1751, cardinal-bishop of Sabina (1711) and then of Porto and Santa Rufina (1743). He was the nephew of Pope Clement XI and brother of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. This suggests that this vase may have belonged to the cardinal.
Artist: M.J
Date:
Size 9.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2189

Jakob Böhme 1575-1624

Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:504

Pope Benedict XIII, 1649-1730

Pope Benedict XIII, born Pietro Francesco Orsini and later called Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 May 1724 to his death in February 1730. A Dominican friar, Orsini focused on his religious responsibilities as bishop rather than on papal administration.
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2581

Philip Melanchthon 1497-1560

German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems
Size 12.5 x 18.5 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:484

Pierre de Gondi, 1533-1616. Cardinal, Bishop of Paris

Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis. In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.
Artist: Claude Duflos
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2583