Prince d’Albanie, adventurer from Budva who gained considerable notoriety for posing as royalty.
Artist: R.Brichet
Date:1770
Size 16 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:173
Category Archives: Italian
Pietro Aretino 1492-1556
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics.
Size 4.5 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:953
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
Ref:175
Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1642-1723
The penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo’s 53-year-long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and banned May celebrations.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1254
Rambaldo XIII di Collalto 1579-1630)
Born, in Mantua to Antonio Collalto and Giulia Torelli daughter of Marcantonio and Ippolita Gonzaga. His family, residing in the castle of San Salvatore in Susegana, was the most prestigious in the Treviso area, but for some time its noble privileges had been reduced by the government of the Serenissima. In 1595, for example, the right of mere and mixed empire was suppressed, while the Montello possessions were confiscated. Contrary to his relatives, such as his father and brothers Massimiliano II and Vincinguerra IV, Collalto reacted to these acts by refusing any military employment under the insignia of San Marco.
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2175
Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Saxony 1666-1732
Victor Amadeus II, (born May 14, 1666, Turin, Savoy —died Oct. 31, 1732, Moncalieri, near Turin), duke of Savoy who through his diplomacy became the first king of Sardinia-Piedmont and thus established the foundation for the future Italian national state.
Size 13.8 x 19.6 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:231
Ercole III d’Este, Duke of Modena 1727-1803
Ercole III d’Este was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1780 to 1796, and later of Breisgau. He was a member of the House of Este.
Artist: G.Pisara
Date: 1816
Size 12 x 16 cms
Ref:184
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1769-1824
Ferdinand III was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824. He was also the Prince-elector and Grand Duke of Salzburg and Grand Duke of Würzburg
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:394
Ottavio Piccolomini 1599-1656 Count Aragonia
Ottavio Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire:
Size 14 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2113
Angelica Catalani 1780 -1849 Italian opera singer
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
Artist: Bollinger
Date:
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2462