Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: Sined the Bard, was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist.
Size 12.8 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Category Archives: Ecclesiastical
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
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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
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Antonius Augustinus 1517-1586 Archbishop of Tarragona
Antonio Agustín y Albanell , also referred to as Augustinus, was a Spanish Humanist historian, jurist and Roman Catholic archbishop of Tarragona who pioneered the historical research of the sources of canon law.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Franz Arnold von Wolff-Metternich zur Grach 1658-1718
Prince Bishop of Paderborn and Munster
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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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
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Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn 1676-1743
Prince-Bishop of Speyer (1719–1743), Bishop of Konstanz (1740–1743) and a cardinal (1713).
Size 16 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
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Andreas von Österreich, Margrave of Burgau 1558-1600
Andreas von Österreich, Margrave of Burgau, also known as Andrew of Austria was a cardinal, Bishop of Constance and of Brixen. He belonged to the Austrian nobility, descending from its ruling dynasty, the House of Habsburg
Size 18 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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Pope Urban VIII Urbanus 1568-1644
Pope Urban VIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in 1644. He expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts and a reformer of Church missions
Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Domenico Antonio Thun 1686 – 1758
Prince Bishop of Trento. Domenico Antonio was accused of having a greater dedication to the enjoyment of life and revelry than to the spiritual and temporal government of the principality. He was in fact guilty of being a “frequent frequenter of taverns, not averse to excessive familiarity with persons of the opposite sex, a lover of profane discourses and libertine songs, a devoted guest of the Venice carnival, where he went with his court of revealers and freeloaders”
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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