Fireworks in Honor of the Wedding of Emperor Leopold I with Margaret of Spain in Vienna November-December 1666

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: Triumphal Procession of Neptune in a Chariot, with Sea and River Gods, before Palazzo Pitti

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: The Pitti Palace Courtyard Equipped for Foot Combat

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: The Joust on the Piazza Santa Croce

A young couple celebrating their wedding ceremony at St Peter’s Church in aCatholic area of Belfast

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: Naumachia in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: First Entry. Porta del Prato

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: The Seventh Arch. attached to the Façade of the Palazzo Vecchio

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: The Fifth Arch. Canto di Bischeri

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: The Second Entry Arch. Over the Porta al'Carraia

Allegorical Portrait of the Emperor Matthias I and Ann of Austria

<Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine>: The Fourth Entry Arch. Decorations for the Façade of St. Maria de Fiore

JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare