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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Date:
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
Artist:

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
Artist:

Size 22 x 16 cms

Price £38.00

Ref:845

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

Archduchess Barbara of Austria consort of Ferrara 1539-1572

Barbara of Austria was Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio by marriage to Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1023

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