Council of Trent, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Audience given by Pope Pius V to Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Pope Pius V, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Vatican Reception of the Duke of Tuscany, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Attributed to Etienne DuPérac, Attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

A Papal Gathering in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the back wall; the crowd looks on through a screen, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Antonio Lafreri

Seating Arrangement of the Chevaliers of the Order of the Holy Spirit

Abraham Bosse, Melchior Tavernier

A Gathering in a Church

Sébastien Leclerc I

Le vray pourtraict de l'assemblee des Estats tenuz en la ville de Bloys au moys de Decembre, l'an mil cinq cens soixante & seize

Published by Robert Le Mangnier, Anonymous, French, 16th century

Queen Elizabeth in Parliament

Anonymous, 17th century, After Renold Elstrack, Elizabeth I, Queen of England

The Princely Meal (Die Fürstliche Mahlzeit), from a series depicting the wedding of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Duke of Pfalz-Neuberg, Pfalzgraf, and Magdalena, Duchess of Bavaria, in Munich, 1613 (Plate 7)

Wilhelm Peter Zimmermann

Plate G: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

Anonymous, German, 17th century, Johann Bringern, Willhelm Hoffmans

De inhuldiging in de St.-Bavokerk te Gent, van Karel VI, Duits keizer, in 1717

Jacob Colin

Willem V toont de papieren van Laurens, 1780

Jacobus Buys

Frontispiece to Nicholas Amhurst's "Terrae-Filius"

William Hogarth, Related author Nicholas Amhurst