Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1519
Tag Archives: Writer
Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762-1814
German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant
Artist: Bury
Date:
Size 12.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:839
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molière 1622-1673
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets and more.
Size 7 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1964
Pandolfo Collenuccio 1444-1505
Italian Renaissance humanist, Civil Servant and writer. Born in Pesaro and educated in Padua, Collenuccio first served the Sforza rulers of Pesaro, but was dismissed when Giovanni Sforza succeeded in 1483.
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:852
Martin Luther 1483-1546
Martin Luther OSA was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. He was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507.
Artist: Schuler
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2165
Jean Racine 1639-1699
Jean-Baptiste Racine 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such “examples of neoclassical perfection” as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1682
Dávid Baróti Szabó 1739-1819
Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, writer and linguist.
Artist: Klime
Date:1790
Size 10 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:854
Antoine Houdar de la Motte 1672-1731
French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux, was a complete failure, and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappistse
Artist: de Delpech
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2168
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac 1597-1654
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of the Académie française.
Artist: After Mellan
Date:1654
Size 10 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:630
Márton György Kovachich 1744-1821
Hungarian law historian, librarian, source researcher
Artist: Szechenyi
Date:1744
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1766