Discover military personnel, art collector Ottavio Piccolomini

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Ottavio Piccolomini

male / Italian

military personnel, art collector

Qualifications: military personnel, art collector
In 1634 he received the estate Náchod in East Bohemia; in 1638 he was made a Count of the Empire; in 1639 he was rewarded to the office of privy councillor and the dukedom of Amalfi from King Philip IV of Spain; he had a minor collection of Dutch paintings and tapestries at his castle in Náchod, Bohemia(Mzykova 2012, p. 16). He owned paintings by Jan Lievens and Gerard Seghers and commissioned the series of battles scenes to Pieter Snayers, now in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna (Lahrkamp 1998).

Nationality/school: Italian

Born: Florence 1599-11-11

Deceased: 1656-08-11
died after an accident (falling from his horse)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: He came from an Italian noble family, he had a younger brother Ascanio Piccolomini who was appointed as Archbishop of Siena. Octavio Piccolomini married on 4 June 1651 with Maria Benigna Francisca of Saxe-Lauenburg, daughter of Julius Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg. He had no legitimate issue, his son Josef Silvio was killed by Swedish troops in 1645 in Bohemia.

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1615
became a tercio pikeman for the Kingdom of Spain
Bohemen (hist. regio) 1618
appointed captain of a cavalry regiment, sent by the Grand
Praag 1620
fought at the battle of White Mountain
Milaan 1624
served in the Spanish army as lieutenant-colonel
Wenen (stad) 1627
became captain of the personal guard of Albrecht Wallenstein (Mzykova 2012, p. 16)
Ferrara 1630
was captured and held hostage for helping in unauthorised negotiations for peace with the Swedish Empire
Lützen (Burgenlandkreis) 1632
served as a colonel in the battle of Lützen
Hradec Králové (stad) 1633
appointed commander of a detachment posted at Königgratz
Schlesien (hist. regio) 1633
entered Silesia with the main army in an attempt to compel the electors of Brandenburg and Saxony to join the Holy Roman Empire against the Swedes; Piccolomini was with Albrecht Wallenstein
Nördlingen 1634
fougt at the battle of Nördlingen
Thionville 1635
fought at the battle of Thionville
Leipzig 1642
Breitenfeld near Leipzig; he fought at the second battle of Breitenfeld also known as the First battle of Leipzig; Piccolomini served under Leopold Wilhelm
Vlaanderen (regio) 1645 - 1648
fought at the head of the Imperial forces in Flanders and northern France (Mzykova 2012, p. 16)

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Literature

Bussmann/Schilling 1998 , H. Lahrkamp, 'Zu einem Portrait des Jan Boeckhorst und zu den Kunskontakten des kaiserlichen Feldherrn Ottavio Piccolomini', vol. 2, p. 209-214
Mžyková 2012 , p. 16
Radványi/Tátrai/Varga 2012 , H. Seifertová, 'Bemerkungen zu Joachim von Sandrarts Bildnis des Ottavio Piccolomini mit seinem Adjudanten Hans Christoph Ranfft von Wiesenthal', p. 76-70

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Creation date: 2018-06-29; Last modified date: 2023-01-26

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