Pope Clement XIV, born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in September 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only Franciscan friar in the College of Cardinals, having been a member of OFM Conventual.
Artist: Petreir
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Size 11.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2890
The Papafava (sometimes also Pappafava, more precisely Papafava dei Carraresi) were an aristocratic family of Padua, a junior branch of the Carraresi.
Artist/Engraver: Sorgato 1848
Size28 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3642
Artist/Engraver Johann Alexander Boner
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3608
Cardinal Rinaldo d’Este was born in 1618, the son of Alfonso III d’Este, Duke of Modena and Isabella of Savoy. He was the brother of Francesco d’Este who succeeded his father as Duke of Modena.. He was elected Bishop of Reggio Emilia in December 1650 and participated in the Papal conclave of 1655 which elected Pope Alexander VII, the conclave of 1667, which elected Pope Clement IX and the conclave of 1669–1670, which elected Pope Clement X. On 24 August 1671 he opted for the order of bishops and was appointed Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina.
Subject nationality: Italian
Subject gender: Male
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Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £25.00
Ref:847
Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functional harmony
Artist: Hugh Howard
Size 14 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3114
Cosimo III de’ Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II
Artist: Justus Sustermans
Size 30 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3486
Margaret of Parma Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582, was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess consort of Florence and a Duchess consort of Parma and Piacenza by marriage.
Subject gender: Female
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Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £24.00
Ref:837
Ferdinando II de’ Medici 1610-1670 was grand duke of Tuscany from 1621-1670. He was the eldest child of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria.
Subject gender: Male
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Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £38.00
Ref:845
Girolamo Carafa (or Caraffa), Marquis of Montenegro (Abruzzo, 1564 – Genoa, 1633) was a general in Spanish and Imperial service from Italian descent. Girolamo was born in the noble Neapolitan Carafa family. His parents were Rainaldo Carafa and Portia Carracciola, daughter of the Duke of Sicignano.
Size 11 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:863
Roman Catholic cardinal and antiquarian
Artist: M.B.
Date:1737
Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2187