Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2457
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
Ref:595
Maria Anna Ricciarda Carolina Margherita was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. Born a Princess of Savoy, she was the penultimate child and daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and his wife, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este.
Size 18 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2497
Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain. He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy Roman Empero
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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The Florentine banking family of the Gondi were prominent financial partners of the Medici. Simone de Gieri Gondi held extensive lands around Valcava, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, where the church of S. Cresci, and a chapel which belonged to the Gondi (S. Margherita, formerly S. Martino) bore the Gondi arms. Simone de Gieri had seven children, one of whom was Silvestro Gondi whose son Simone de Silvestro Gondi was the first of the Gondi to be the Grand Prior of the Republic of Florence.
Date:1351
Size 15.5 x 24.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1242
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Size 11 x 17 cms
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The Gaudenzio De Pagave Institute was founded in Novara in 1833 from the will of the Knight Gaudenzio De Pagave who, upon dying, left all his property as an inheritance to the citizens of Novara, so that they could take care of alleviating the terrible ” scourge of poverty “.
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Born in Mantua, he was the eldest son of Duke Vincenzo I and Eleonora de’ Medici.
Francesco became Duke upon his father’s death on 9 February 1612. He died at Mantua on 22 December 1612 without male heirs. He was succeeded by his brother Ferdinand; however, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, the father of Francesco’s wife Margaret of Savoy, disputed this, leading to the War of the Montferrat Succession (1613–1617).
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2067
Old and distinguished Austro-Italian noble house of Lombard origin, named after their seat at Collalto in Susegana, now in the Province of Treviso in Italy.
Size 10.5 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:557
Austrian soldier of Italian origin. He was Lieutenant field marshal, and deputy commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment Prince Frederick William of Prussia.
Artist: Stadler
Date:1851
Size 18 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1795