Luigi Cherubini was an Italian Classical and pre-Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries
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Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2453
Category Archives: Italian
Francis IV, Duke of Modena 1779-1846
Francis IV Joseph Charles Ambrose Stanislaus was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola, Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara, Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Francis was born in Milan. His father was Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duke of Breisgau, his mother Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d’Este, Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara, Lady of Lunigiana.
Artist: Rosmasler
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Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2406
Paolo Renier 1710-1789
Venetian statesman, the 119th, and penultimate, Doge of Venice. He was an orator and tactician, and served as ambassador to Constantinople and to Vienna. His election as Doge was unpopular, and he was the subject of numerous menacing letters at the time.
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:410
Pandolfo Collenuccio 1444-1505
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
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
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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
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2464
Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquess of The Balbases 1569 –1630
Italian condottiero and nobleman of the Republic of Genoa, who served as a Spanish general and won a number of important battles.
Artist: after Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt
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Size 19 x 26.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:632