Giovanni Bartolomeo Bosco was an Italian magician during the mid-19th century. He is best known for his adroitness with the famous cups and balls. When he was nineteen years old, he was drafted into Napoleon’s Army. In 1812, Bosco was wounded during the Battle of Borodino by a Cossack lancer
Artist: W.Medow
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1694
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
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
Date:
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2464
Italian condottiero and nobleman of the Republic of Genoa, who served as a Spanish general and won a number of important battles.
Artist: after Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt
Date:
Size 19 x 26.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:632
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
Margaret of Parma was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of the then 22-year-old Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess of Florence and a Duchess of Parma and Piacenza by her two marriages.
Size 6 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2920
Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy. Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War from scratch as a simple footsoldier, he rose through the ranks into a regiment holder and became an important cavalry commander in the late stages
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:862
Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2006
Fra Gregorio Carafa was a nobleman from the House of Carafa and the 61st Grand Master of the Order of Saint John, from 1680 to his death in 1690.
Size 14 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2278
Was the Prince-Archbishop of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg from 1619-1653. He was born 13 February 1586 in the Castelnuovo di Noarna, in Nogaredo, Trentino. He was the son of Count Nicolò Lodron (1549-1621) (a scion of the branch of the noble Italian family Lodron from Trentino called the Vallagarina or Castelnuovo-Castellano line), an imperial colonel and governor of the County of Tyrol; and his wife Dorothea von Welsperg.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2836