Italian Renaissance humanist, Civil Servant and writer. Born in Pesaro and educated in Padua, Collenuccio first served the Sforza rulers of Pesaro, but was dismissed when Giovanni Sforza succeeded in 1483.
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:852
Category Archives: Italian
Cosimo de’ Medici 1712-1764
Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici, called “the Elder” and posthumously “Father of the Fatherland”, was an Italian banker and politician, the first member of the Medici family that de facto ruled Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance.
Size 12 x 18.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:423
Enrico Cialdini, Duca di Gaeta 1811-1892 General
Enrico Cialdini, Duke of Gaeta (Castelvetro di Modena, 8 August 1811 – Livorno, 8 September 1892), was an Italian nobleman, general, diplomat and politician. He was one of the most important military figures of the Piedmontese army and later of the Italian Royal Army, in particular during the Piedmontese campaign in central Italy of 1860, the siege of Gaeta, the repression of the post-unification Italian Brigandage and the Third Italian War of Independence
Size 17 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2237
Giovanni Bartolomeo Bosco 1793-1863
Giovanni Bartolomeo Bosco was an Italian magician during the mid-19th century. He is best known for his adroitness with the famous cups and balls. When he was nineteen years old, he was drafted into Napoleon’s Army. In 1812, Bosco was wounded during the Battle of Borodino by a Cossack lancer
Artist: W.Medow
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1694
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
Annibale Carracci, 1560,-1609, Italian painter
Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism. He was the most talented of the three painters of the Carracci family.
Artist: D.Koch
Date:
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2464
Cristofolo Di Budiani Ribelle
Subject nationality: italian
Subject gender: Male
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Date:
Size 14 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:421
Pope Alexander VII 1599 -1667
Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. He began his career as a vice-papal legate, and he held various diplomatic positions in the Holy See. He was ordained as a priest in 1634, and he became bishop of Nardo in 1635
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2388
Margaret of Parma Margherita di Parma 1522-1586
Margaret of Parma was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of the then 22-year-old Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess of Florence and a Duchess of Parma and Piacenza by her two marriages.
Size 6 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2920
Raimondo Montecuccoli 1609-1680
Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy. Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War from scratch as a simple footsoldier, he rose through the ranks into a regiment holder and became an important cavalry commander in the late stages
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:862