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

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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

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

Cristofolo Di Budiani Ribelle

Subject nationality: italian
Subject gender: Male
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Size 14 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:421

Pope Alexander VII 1599 -1667

Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. He began his career as a vice-papal legate, and he held various diplomatic positions in the Holy See. He was ordained as a priest in 1634, and he became bishop of Nardo in 1635
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:2388