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Showing posts with label 1675. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1675. Show all posts

29 April 2018

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini - painter

Venetian artist who made mark in England Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's self-portrait, painted in about 1717 The painter Giovanni...

7 October 2017

Rosalba Carriera - portrait painter

Venetian artist specialised in miniatures Rosalba Carriera: shown painting her sister in a self-portrait housed at the Uffizi in Flor...

12 June 2017

Charles Emmanuel II - Duke of Savoy

Ruler who was notorious for massacre of Protestant minority Charles Emmanuel II's good work for Turin was overshadowed by his pers...

1 June 2017

Francesco Scipione – playwright

Erudite marquis revitalised Italian drama An 18th century portrait of Scipione by an unknown artist Dramatist Francesco Scipione...

31 March 2017

Pope Benedict XIV

Bologna cardinal seen as great intellectual leader Pierre Subleyras's portrait of Benedict XIV, painted in the early 1700s, is in...

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