Francesco I was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1574 until his death in 1587, a member of the House of Medici.
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2007
Category Archives: Italian
Jakob Hannibal Graf von Hohenems 1530-1587
Jakob Hannibal I von Hohenems was the son of Wolf Dietrich von Hohenems and Clara de Medici. He spent parts of his youth in Northern Italy with his uncle Gian Giacomo Medici, Duke of Marignano and Marquis of Musso and Lecco. He pursued a military career. The election of another uncle, Giovanni Angelo Medici, as Pope Pius IV began a golden time for Jacob Hannibal I and the Hohenems people. In 1560 they were raised to the rank of count. In 1565 he married Hortensia Borromeo (1547–1578), the half-sister of Charles Borromeo, a cardinal and archbishop of Milan. Hortensia Borromeo was also a niece of Pope Pius IV.i.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2296
Carl Emanuel III 1701-1773
Charles Emmanuel III (27 April 1701 – 20 February 1773) was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his father’s abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three mainline kings of Sardinia
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:197
Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso 1488-1530
Belgiojoso was born to Carlo Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Caterina Visconti. His military career began at an early age under the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. He fought at the battle of Ravenna (1512) and the battle of Marignano (1515). Afterwards he moved to France, where he became a chamberlain to Francis I and castellan of Rouvres. In 1521, Belgiojoso fought in the French invasion of Navarre as part of the Italian contingent under Teodoro Trivulzio. In 1522, he took part in the French invasion of Italy.
Artist: Cesare Laurentio
Date:
Size 19 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2553
Andrea Appiani 1754-1817
One of the most important painters outside Rome became Napoleon’s official painter and executed some of the best frescoes in northern Italy. He was also a fine portraitist. One of his pupils was Giuseppe Bossi.
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:266
Angelica Catalani 1780-1849
Angelica Catalani was an Italian opera singer, the daughter of a tradesman. Her greatest gift was her voice, a soprano of nearly three octaves in range. Its unsurpassed power and flexibility made her one of the greatest bravura singers of all times. She also worked as a singing teacher.:
Size 7 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:341
Nicolao Sottile 1751-1832
Italian priest & writer
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Francois
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1473
Ferdinando II de’ Medici 1610-1670
Grand duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria.
Size 8 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:367
Elisabetta Visconti 1374-1432
Elisabetta Visconti, also known as Elisabeth or Elizabeth, was a younger child of Bernabò Visconti and his wife, Beatrice Regina della Scala. Elisabetta was a member of the House of Visconti. wife of Ernst, duke of Bavaria
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1783
Francesco dei Medici 1541-1581 Grand Duke of Tuscany
Francesco I was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1574 until his death in 1587, a member of the House of Medici.
Size 16 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1980