Category Archives: Italian

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Rinaldo d’Este 1618-1672

Cardinal Rinaldo d’Este was born in 1618, the son of Alfonso III d’Este, Duke of Modena and Isabella of Savoy. He was the brother of Francesco d’Este who succeeded his father as Duke of Modena.. He was elected Bishop of Reggio Emilia in December 1650 and participated in the Papal conclave of 1655 which elected Pope Alexander VII, the conclave of 1667, which elected Pope Clement IX and the conclave of 1669–1670, which elected Pope Clement X. On 24 August 1671 he opted for the order of bishops and was appointed Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina.
Subject nationality: Italian

Subject gender: Male

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Size 22 x 16 cms

Price £25.00

Ref:847

Nicolò Acciaioli 1629-1719

Niccolò Acciaiuoli, or Acciaioli or Acciajuoli , was an Italian cardinal. He belonged to the noble Florentine Acciaiuoli family, the third of the ten children of senator Ottaviano Acciaiuoli and Maria Acciauioli and was the uncle of Cardinal Filippo Acciaiuoli (1700 – 1766)
Size 8 x 16 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:2821

Arcangelo Corelli 1653-1713

Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functional harmony

Artist: Hugh Howard

Size 14 x 9 cms

Price £10.00

Ref: 3114

Cosimo III de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany 1642-1723

Cosimo III de’ Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II

Artist: Justus Sustermans

Size 30 x 20 cms

Price £28.00

Ref: 3486

Margaret, Duchess of Parma 1522-1586

Margaret of Parma Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582, was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess consort of Florence and a Duchess consort of Parma and Piacenza by marriage.

Subject gender: Female
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Size 26 x 16 cms

Price £24.00

Ref:837

Ferdinando II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Ferdinando II de’ Medici 1610-1670 was grand duke of Tuscany from 1621-1670. He was the eldest child of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria.

Subject gender: Male
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Size 22 x 16 cms

Price £38.00

Ref:845

Marches Fachenetti, Baron Hirtenfels, Marches Pieruzzi

Subject nationality: Italian
Subject gender: Male
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Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2251

Vittorio Alfieri 1749-1803

Count Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the “founder of Italian tragedy.”
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:422

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1797-1870

Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor, Ferdinand.
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:595

Peter Leopold Graf Spannocchi 1788-1867

Imperial General of the Cavalry, born in Florence in 1788, died in Vienna 1867. Appointed an ensign in Mittrovsky’s infantry on 1803, he was promoted to sublieutenant in Fürst Auersperg’s infantry 1805. Fought in Germany and, as a first lieutenant in the Stipsicz Huszars, took part in the battle of Caldiero and in the retreat battles at Tagliamento and Isonzo. and in the war of 1809.
Artist: Katzler
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Size 21 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1747