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These chess set are made in pure bronze using the "lost wax casting" like the sculptors Benvenuto Cellini and Lorenzo Ghiberti in the fiftenth century were used to

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LOUIS XIV - THE SUN KING ( SINCE 1643)

Unique chess set, made in bronze by "lost wax casting" process, finished using gold 24 karat. Each piece is signed by the sculptor. The chessboard is made in onyx and bronze with a frame in bronze and gold. Stools in bronze with soft velvet seat. The great "Sun King" began in the second half of the 17th century. an absolute and personal government in France with the collaboration of its ministers. The kingdom expanded, acquiring Alsace, Flanders and France Comté, but the ambitious will of Louis XIV was fully manifested also in internal politics: he increasingly centralized the power of the monarchy, persecuted protestants and jansenists and fought with the Papacy for the autonomy of the Gallican Church. His name is closely linked to the culture of the time which he encouraged with the construction of academies and the protection of the arts, not to mention the splendid court of Versailles. He worked hard enough to intrinsically link his fame to the century in which he lived, what the French, rightly, call the "century of Louis XIV" or "Great Century".

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CHARLEMAGNE, KING OF CAROLINGIANS VS THE MOORS OF ...

Unique chess set, made in bronze by "lost wax casting" process, finished using gold 24 karat. Each piece is signed by the sculptor. The chessboard is made in onyx and bronze with a frame in bronze and gold. Stools in bronze with soft velvet seat. Between the VII and the VIII century. a.D. the Arab empire experienced the period of its maximum expansion: the conquest of the western territories was started at the time of the first caliphs, managing to occupy the entire northern Egyptian-Libyan region. After a few years of stasis, the expansion resumed in the second half of the seventh century. and managed to reach the Atlantic. In 711, with the expedition to Spain, the Arabs succeeded in overthrowing the kingdom of the Visigoths and, from here, they proceeded from victory to victory towards southern Gaul. Their desire for conquest was, however, arrested in the battle of Poitiers by Charles Martel, who, in 732, thus succeeded in averting the immanent danger of Muslim dominance for the West.

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MEDIEVAL SET

Unique chess set, made in bronze by "lost wax casting" process, finished using gold 24 karat. Each piece is signed by the sculptor. The chessboard is made in onyx and bronze with a frame in bronze and gold. Stools in bronze with soft velvet seat. The Middle Ages was a historical period that followed the end of the Western Roman Empire and reached the end of the 15th century. It is customary to have it started in 476 a.D., the year in which Odoacer deposed the last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and ended with 1492, the date of the discovery of America. The early Middle Ages were characterized by the barbarian kingdoms, by the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire and by the triumph of feudal society; the late Middle Ages, on the other hand, saw the development of free communes, from the crisis of feudalism to the rise of the free lords of Italy.

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GIANT CHESS MEN + GIANT CHESS TABLE