Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from 1818 to 1848. He was also an Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia.
Artist: Laurens
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Size 7 x 10.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2408
Category Archives: Italian
Antonio Albizzi 1547-1626
Italian jurist and genealogist, born in Florence in 1547. In 1576 he was in the service of Cardinal-Archduke Andreas of Austria. In 1585 he converted to Lutheranism and spent the rest of his life in the Protestant Imperial City of Kempten, where he died in 1626. His most famous work was Principum Christianorum Stemmata
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:908
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia 1701-1773
Charles Emmanuel III was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:459
Catherine de Medici 1519-1589
Catherine de’ Medici; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II.
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Size 15 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1630
Annibale Albani 1682-1751
Annibal Albani, born in Urbino in 1682 and died in Rome in 1751, cardinal-bishop of Sabina (1711) and then of Porto and Santa Rufina (1743). He was the nephew of Pope Clement XI and brother of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. This suggests that this vase may have belonged to the cardinal.
Artist: M.J
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Size 9.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2189
Pope Clement XI 1649-1721
Pope Clement XI (Latin: Clemens XI; Italian: Clemente XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721.Clement XI was a patron of the arts and of science. He was also a great benefactor of the Vatican Library; his interest in archaeology is credited with saving much of Rome’s antiquity. He authorized expeditions which succeeded in rediscovering various ancient Christian writings and authorized excavations of the Roman catacombs.
Size 9 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2813
Francesco Pignatelli 1652-1734
Born at Senise, in the province of Potenza, he entered the order of Theatines in 1665 (age 13). On September 27, 1684, after being nominated by King Charles II of Spain, he was elected archbishop of Taranto. He was recruited by Pope Clement XI to be nuncio to Poland, where he attempted to work on the schism between Catholics and Ruthenians (Ukrainians and Polish). On 19 February 1703 he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Naples and occupied it until his
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Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:697
Odoardo Farnese Duke of Parma 1612-1646
Odoardo Farnese, also known as Odoardo I Farnese to distinguish him from his grandson Odoardo II Farnese, was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1622 to 1646.
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Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2586
Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquess of The Balbases 1569-1630
Italian condottiero and nobleman of the Republic of Genoa, who served as a Spanish general and won a number of important battles.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2680
Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquess of The Balbases 1569 –1630
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
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Size 19 x 26.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:632