Victor Amadeus I was the Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 26 July 1630 until his death in 1637. He was also known as the Lion of Susa. He was succeeded by two of his sons; Francis Hyacinth and Charles Emmanuel II. His male-only line became extinct in 1831 with the death of Charles Felix.
Artist: Leeuw
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Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2506
Vincentius Petra, Archbishop of Naples, Dama, Charles, S.R.E., Deacon Cardinal of Marin, 29 May 1785,
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Ref:700
After being Imperial envoy in Rome and Madrid, he fought in 1623 under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly on the Rhine and Main and became in 1624 head of the Imperial War Council in Vienna. Made a Field Marshal, he received supreme command of the campaign in Northern Italy against Charles Gonzaga of Nevers during the War of Mantuan Succession. Already very sick, he was not present at the siege and sack of Mantua on 18 July 1630.
Charged of conspiring with Venice, he traveled to Vienna to defend himself, but died on the way in Chur, on 19 November 1630.
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Elisabetta Visconti, also known as Elisabeth or Elizabeth, was a younger child of Bernabò Visconti and his wife, Beatrice Regina della Scala. Elisabetta was a member of the House of Visconti. wife of Ernst, duke of Bavaria
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1783
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
Ref:175
Ottavio Piccolomini was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire
Artist: Sysang
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Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2137
Charles Emmanuel III was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three mainline Kings of Sardinia.
Artist: Sysang
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Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2527
Leopold II was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; firstly Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832 Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he had a son, Ferdinand, who later succeeded him.
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Size 24 x 19.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:660
Italian priest & writer
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Francois
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1473
Ferrante II Gonzaga was count and, from 1621, duke of Guastalla. He was the son of Cesare I Gonzaga, count of Guastalla and duke of Amalfi, and Donna Camilla Borromeo. He succeeded his father in 1575. On 2 July 1621, the County of Guastalla was elevated to a duchy and Ferrante was subsequently deemed a duke.
Size 12.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1789