Michael Friedrich Graf von Althann was a Holy Roman clergyman and politician who was the bishop of Vác and former viceroy to the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.
Artist: W.P.Kilian
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Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf 1699-1747
Austrian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was born in Paris, France as the son of Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf, who was Austrian Ambassador there. The House of Von Sinzendorf was a member of the Upper Austrian nobility.
Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Domenico Antonio Thun 1686 – 1758
Prince Bishop of Trento. Domenico Antonio was accused of having a greater dedication to the enjoyment of life and revelry than to the spiritual and temporal government of the principality. He was in fact guilty of being a “frequent frequenter of taverns, not averse to excessive familiarity with persons of the opposite sex, a lover of profane discourses and libertine songs, a devoted guest of the Venice carnival, where he went with his court of revealers and freeloaders”
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Anna Caterina Gonzaga 1566-1621
Anna Caterina Gonzaga, OSM, religious name Anna Juliana, (16 November 1566 – 3 August 1621) was an Archduchess of Austria who became a religious Sister of the Servite Order after the death of her husband, the Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria.
Size 17 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
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Cardinal Angelo Maria Querini 1680-1755
Quirini’s writings include many works on the history of the Church, of Corfu, and of Brescia, as well as a five-volume edition of the correspondence of Cardinal Reginald Pole. In Brescia, he founded in 1745 the Biblioteca Queriniana, which still exists today, and he sponsored the German missions. He also financed the completion of the St. Hedwig Church in Berlin, which is today the cathedral of the archbishopric of Berlin.
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Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £18.00
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François-Armand de Lorraine-Armagnac, 1665-1728
Bishop of Bayeux
Subject gender: Male
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Size 8.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Pope Urban VIII Urbanus 1568-1644
Pope Urban VIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in 1644. He expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts and a reformer of Church missions
Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Samuel Martini von Drazowa 1593-1639
Samuel Martinius from Dražov printer owner, publisher and Lutheran religious writer. He came from the Czech Horovice In 1614, he finished his studies at the University of Prague with the rank of master and was ordained a priest. From 1621 he lived in exile in Germany, Netherlands and England.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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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
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Ernst Adalbert von Harrach, Archbishop of Prague 1598-1667
Austrian Catholic Cardinal who was appointed Archbishop of Prague and Prince-Bishop of Trento. His name in Czech is Arnošt Vojtěch hrabě z Harrachu.
Artist: P.Aubry
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Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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