Category Archives: Italian

Carlo III, duca di Lorena 1543-1608

Duke of Lorraine, known as “the Great”. He took part in the civil wars of France and in 1588 joined the Catholic League. In 1559 he married Claudia, daughter of the French king Henry II of Valois (1519-1559). His daughter Cristina (1565-1636) married Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549-1609), Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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Count Francesco Algarotti 1712 -1764

Count Francesco Algarotti was a Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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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

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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
Date:
Size 21 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

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Cosimo II de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany 1590-1620

Cosimo II de’ Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until his death. He was the elder son of Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Christina of Lorraine. For the majority of his twelve-year reign, he delegated the administration of Tuscany to his ministers
Size 16.5 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

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Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua 1594-1627

Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat from 1626 until his death. He was the son of Duke Vincent I and Eleonora de’ Medici and inherited the duchy at the death of his elder brother Ferdinand, receiving the imperial investiture on 8 February 1627.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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