Born Giulio di Giuliano de’ Medici was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534. Deemed “the most unfortunate of the popes”, Clement VII’s reign was marked by a rapid succession of politics, military, and religious struggles—many long in the making—which had far-reaching consequences for Christianity and world politics.
After Titian engraved by Hinchliff
Size 18 x 11 cm
Price £14.00
Ref3761/515
Antonio Barberini was an Italian Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts and a prominent member of the House of Barberini. As one of the cardinal-nephews of Pope Urban VIII and a supporter of France, he played a significant role in the papal conclaves of the 17th century.
After Robert Nanteuil 1623-1678
20 x 13 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3756/514
Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy (French: Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca and Piombino (1805-1814), Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1809-1814) and Countess of Compignano by appointment of her brother.
Artist/Engraver Wiliam Read
Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3699
Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy the future Cosimo III and Francesco Maria de’ Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. She was the Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro in her own right and these went to her youngest son when she died. She was later the guardian of her three grandchildren. Her marriage bought a lot of art treasures to the House of Medici which are today at the Palazzo Pitti Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She did not get on with her daughter in law Marguerite Louise d’Orléans.
Artist/Engraver Pieter de Jode
Size 29 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3597
Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),(1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.
Artist/Engraver
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:3596
Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the “arbiter of Italy” by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.
Artist/Engraver
Size 15 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3694
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony was a daughter of Maximilian, Crown Prince of Saxony and his first wife Princess Carolina of Parma. She was by marriage Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1821 to 1824.
Artist: Gozzini
Date:1822
Size 13 x 23.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:833
Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death in May 1758
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2864
Born in Valentano, Ottavio was the second son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (eldest son of Pope Paul III) by his wife Gerolama Orsini. Ottavio’s brother was Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2872
Ferdinand was born in Florence, Tuscany, into the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the second son of Leopold, then Grand-Duke of Tuscany, and his wife, Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain. Being the Grand Duchy a secundogeniture, when his father was elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke of Tuscany, officially taking the office on 22 July 1790.
Artist: Fietta
Date:1810
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2891