French, later Italian, mezzo-soprano. She studied in Paris, where she sang under her real name of Chaumel. Going to Italy, she was engaged at Naples as Comelli and, after her marriage to the tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini, appeared as Comelli-Rubini.
Artist: Lanzedeelli
Date:
Size 20 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2479
The Florentine banking family of the Gondi were prominent financial partners of the Medici. Simone de Gieri Gondi held extensive lands around Valcava, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, where the church of S. Cresci, and a chapel which belonged to the Gondi (S. Margherita, formerly S. Martino) bore the Gondi arms. Simone de Gieri had seven children, one of whom was Silvestro Gondi whose son Simone de Silvestro Gondi was the first of the Gondi to be the Grand Prior of the Republic of Florence.
Date:1351
Size 15.5 x 24.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1242
Was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:344
Italian jurist.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Piale
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:988
Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I. He expanded the culture of Tuscany, which included presenting the opera Euridice by Jacopo Peri.
Size 16.5 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1993
Thomas Francis of Savoy, 1st Prince of Carignano was an Italian military commander and the founder of the Carignano branch of the House of Savoy, which reigned as kings of Piedmont-Sardinia from 1831 to 1861, and as kings of Italy from 1861 until the dynasty’s deposition in 1946.
Artist: Moncornet
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2492
Vincentius Petra, Archbishop of Naples, Dama, Charles, S.R.E., Deacon Cardinal of Marin, 29 May 1785,
Price £14.00
Ref:700
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2460
Captain of the Spanish army; Governor of Lodi, Governor of Cremona in 1536; Decurion of Milan; Senator and Councilor of Genoa
Son of Carlo Barbiano and Caterina Visconti
Husband of Paola da Barbiano
Father of Francesco Barbiano, count of Belgioioso; Ludovico Barbiano; Carlo Barbiano; Livia Sanvitale, from Belgioioso; Ippolita Visconti, countess of the S.R.I. and 1 other
Brother of Antonia Fiorbellina Barbiano; Lucrezia Barbiano; Barbara Margherita Barbiano and Ludovico da Barbiano
Artist: J.B.Bonacina
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2627
Leading exponent of the neoclassic style, which dominated the arts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Internationally famous, he was regarded as the most brilliant sculptor in Europe.
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1155