A Walk Through Two Thousand Years of German History

General Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, during the peace negotiations in Nuremberg

1650/1651
Oil, canvas
Inv.Nr. Gm 95/65

The portrait shows Piccolomini at the height of his career. With an angel of peace and his armour laid to the side, he had himself presented as a successful negotiator of the Peace of Westphalia.