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Dr Thomas A L maes - Duke Grand Prior Of The Sacred Angelic Constantinian Order Of Saint George. Grand Duke and Grand maser of the Order Of Prometheus. In presence of the Jackson family.

Dr. Thomas Andre Louis maes (Duke)
House Of Gerani | Art Consulting | Art Dealer
Grand Master of The Order Of Prometheus
Grand Prior of The Constantinian Order Of Saint George
www.thomasmaes.com | www.maesnobility.com | www.theorderofprometheus.com Duke Dr. Thomas Andre Louis maes (1983) –BELGIUM
Count - Graaf Of Brasschaat | Duke - Hertog Of Gerani
House Of Gerani

Honorary Doctorate in Modern & Contemporary Art, by the Orthodox University of Italy, Facoltà Universitaria Ortodossa San Gregorio Magno. Consulate for Humanitarian& Culture Crete. (Promoting art & culture internationally.) CEO and founder of World Of Crete, Director Of Select Art Fair Art & Antique, Night Of Contemporary. Founder and director of Posterus360 and VIFAF art fair, the first international Virtual trade fair platform (since 2017)

Fair director, gallerist, art critic & curator, art dealer, art consultant. Born in Brasschaat Belgium April 1983. Working in the art world and organization of fairs for the past 20 years. Such as at Monaco, Belgium, Cannes, Greece, USA, Italy, etc. In his early year as an artist himself his work has been published in many art magazines, art books and his works has been seen in many art fairs, galleries and art auctions. Some of the past Events, Fairs, Galleries, Publications and projects where Maes was involved:

2008 August Expo the Greek islands landscapes, solo exhibition (Greece)
2008 Drawings and photography works for archaeology (Greece)
2009 February Private, solo exhibition Antverpia Brasschaat (Belgium)
2009-2010 Gallery Show Chania Crete (Greece)
2011 July-August Solo exhibitions sculptures-paintings-design-photography Rethymno-Chania
2011 Rome/Italy Under the patronage of the embassy of Belgium and Councilor Permanent Representation of Belgium to the Organizations of the United Nations at Gallery Tondinelli in Rome, Italy
2012 June Thomas Maes published in the book Contemporary sculptors, with 7 of his Design sculptures (Schiffer books USA)
2012 May Exhibition of Contemporary Art (International Exhibition) From figuration to the transfiguration - GALLERY FIDIM MILAN/ITALY HISTORY OF 'ART and ART CRITIC - PROF. D.O DELNEGRO
2012 Maes published in Museum and Gallery Magazine ExpoArt with Written art review By art Critic and art historian Prof. Domenico Delnegro Italy
2012 July International Art Exhibition Rome at Gallery Vista
2012 August Exhibition NEW YORK AGORA GALLERY Interpretive Realms
2012 August ART NOCTURNE KNOCKE Fine Art and Antique Fair Knokke/Belgium Maes & Gabriel Meiring.
2012 December International Art Exhibition in Rome at Domus Gallery
2013 January Exhibition New York Agora Gallery, Portals of Perception
2013 March Auction for cancer foundation Belgium, kom op tegen kanker.
2013 March Published in Fine art book INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS Vol 7
2013 April Published in Art Book, ART TAKES TIMES SQUARE
2013 April Art Monaco 2013, Art Fair Monaco. Solo booth
2013 April Art Auction & organizer at Art Monaco. Works of Maes Auctioned for the cancer foundation
2013 May Solo Exhibition at The Villa Oxygen (Richard Nilsson & Jackson foundation) Supper Cannes, Cannes Film festival. (Joseph Jackson new owner of one of maes his works)
2013 May Art Venue We are the world, Exhibition and auction of 15 international artists, at The Villa Oxygen (Richard Nilsson & Jackson foundation) Supper Cannes, Cannes Film festival.
2013 June Published in the art book Important Artists in The World.
2014 February Venue Diamonds For Life, Auction, Group exhibition, galleries, artists and jewelry design. At the royal palace on the Meir and Napoleon Museum. Belgium
2014 February Solo Exhibition Royal palace on the Meir and Napoleon Museum. Antwerp, Belgium
2014 February Auction benefit cancer foundation Belgium Royal palace on the Meir. Antwerp, Belgium
2017 January Managing director at Posterus-Event bvba, Belgium
2017 March Art Exhibit & Auction Investment Event at Monaco
2018 January Creator and founder Posterus360 Virtual Venues
2018 September VIFAF Art Fair , Creator & founder of Virtual International Fine Art Fair & Posterus360 Virtual Trade Fairs
2019 August Co-owner/ Managing director of World Of Crete IKE
2020 May-October Villas Exhibitions Chania, Crete
2020 June-October Exhibition Nama Chania,Crete
2020 September Private Villas Exhibition Chania, Crete
2021 May Awarded and given the official nobility title "Count" Of Brasschaat
2021 May Select Art 2021
2021 June Owner & manager at Villa Moma, Art venues.
2021 June Official royal advisor of the Royal house
2021 June Exhibition Nama
2021 July Collector Exhibition
2021 June-October Villas Exhibitions 2021
2021 September Night Of Contemporary
2021 October VIFAF '21
2021 November Honorary Doctorate In Modern & Contemporary Arts. Granted doctorate by the Orthodox University of Italy, Facoltà Universitaria Ortodossa San Gregorio Magno.
2021 December VIFAF '21 v2 11th December-18th December
2022 January Fauna & Flora DreamScapes 6-28 January 2022
2022 February Select Art '22, 25-28th February 2022
2022 April VIFAF Virtual International Fine Art Fair, 9-30 April 2022
2022 August VIFAF 30 August - 20 September 2022
2022 October Night Of Contemporary, 1-4 October 2022
2022 November Selection committee member and fair director Art & Antique Fair Select Art.
2023 March Co founder WOC Magazine (Art, Culture, Events, Architecture, Life style)
2023 May Select Art '23 Art & Antique Fair, 27-29 May 2023
2023 May VIFAF 2023 v1
2023 August Jury member at Best Art Awards
2023 September Night Of Contemporary, 23-26 September 2023
2024 February VIFAF Virtual International Fine Art Fair, 1-21 February 2024
2024 April Consul at the Consulate for Humanitarian & Culture Crete
2024 May Select Art '24 Art & Antique Fair, 24-26 May 2024
2024 September Night Of Contemporary, 27-30 September 2024
2024 February VIFAF Virtual International Fine Art Fair, 1-21 November 2024
2025 April Grand Prior of the Constantinian order Of Saint George
2025 April Bestowed official nobility title "Duke Of Gerani"
2025 May Select Art '25 Art & Antique Fair& VIFAF 24-26 May 2025
2025 September Night Of Contemporary, 27-30 September 2025
2025 September Contemporary Art Awards, 27 September 2025
2026 January Grand Duke and Grand maser of the chivalric Order Of Prometheus
2026 September Monaco Art Fair, 11-13 September 2026

Heraldry is memory made visible.A title is not a word. It is arms granted, a line recorded, a claim that survives the pe...
09/11/2026

Heraldry is memory made visible.

A title is not a word. It is arms granted, a line recorded, a claim that survives the person making it. That is what the House of Gerani keeps: a register, a blazon, a perizia araldica sworn and sealed, and a name that answers for itself.

Value in this world is not bought. It is documented.

House of Gerani · www.maesnobility.com

Heraldry is the oldest portrait that outlives its subject. A coat of arms tells a stranger in one glance what a family s...
07/11/2026

Heraldry is the oldest portrait that outlives its subject. A coat of arms tells a stranger in one glance what a family stood for: the sword, the lion, the raven on the crown. On a seal or a gate it answers a question money cannot, long after the man who earned it has gone.

The House of Gerani keeps that art alive in Chania, Crete. It is a private dynastic house, headed by Dr. Thomas A. L. Maes, Duke of Gerani, and for those it receives it does what sovereign houses have always done: it confers dignity by letters patent, signed by hand and sealed, enters the name in the General Register under a number that is never given twice, and matriculates the arms a holder already bears.

An honour is worth exactly what it is built to outlast. A title of a State lasts as long as that State's law; a patent of the House is given once and kept for a lifetime, or for a line, hereditary to legitimate descendants, men and women with equal right, never divided. Four ranks, Baron, Viscount, Count, Marquess, each with a territorial designation, the place by which its holder is thereafter known. Baron of a city, Countess of a coast.

Two Orders stand beside them: the Sacred Angelic Imperial Constantinian Order of Saint George, and the Order of Prometheus, four grades in each, from Knight Commander to Knight Grand Cross, conferred for merit and for service.

The House is also a patron. Through the Prometheus Honorary Recognition in the Arts it seeks out artists, receives their work at Villa Moma above the Cretan sea and carries it to the fairs it attends, from Chania to Paris to Monaco. The nomination costs nothing and obliges nothing.

Nothing here is bought over a counter. Petitions are examined without charge and answered, admission is by selection, and a petition may be refused, which is the only reason a grant means anything.

Private dynastic honours, never titles of any State. What they are is older than states: a name, a seal, and an entry that outlives the man who holds it.

Artists, patrons, collectors and the simply curious are all welcome at www.maesnobility.com

A new cross, and the words it carries.The conferral medallion of the House of Gerani has gone into production at an atel...
03/11/2026

A new cross, and the words it carries.

The conferral medallion of the House of Gerani has gone into production at an atelier in Rome. Cross pattée, 48 by 50 mm, struck in silver gilt with the arms of the House at its centre, the ducal coronet above and the pendant crown below, on a ribbon of deep navy with two golden stripes.
Around the roundel, cut at 1.8 mm: SOMNIUM INSPIRARE CREARE. To dream, to inspire, to create.

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By grant of the Grand Master. From the seal of the House to the hands of its members: letters patent under wax, the duca...
28/10/2026

By grant of the Grand Master. From the seal of the House to the hands of its members: letters patent under wax, the ducal signet, and the insignia of the Orders of the House of Gerani. Every grant is written, sealed, numbered and registered.

Distinction by selection.

www.maesnobility.com | www.theorderofprometheus.com

Why does anyone still seek a title? 🏛Not for applause. For permanence. A dignity of the House of Gerani is hereditary. I...
27/10/2026

Why does anyone still seek a title? 🏛

Not for applause. For permanence. A dignity of the House of Gerani is hereditary. It passes to your children, inscribed by name in the General Register of the House. A photograph fades. A social post disappears. A Letters Patent under the great seal endures and belongs to those who come after you.

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24/10/2026

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