Category Archives: Italian

Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma 1545-1592

Alexander Farnese was an Italian noble and condottiero who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592, as well as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.
Size 16 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2537

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Adelaide Comelli-Rubini Adèle Chaumel, mezzo-soprano. 1796-1874

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

Simone de Gieri Gondi 1351

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

Annibale Carracci 1560-1609

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

Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano 1596-1656

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