Plate 25: Philip crowned King of Spain by his father, Charles V; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Plate 21: Emperor Charles V being offered the keys of Saxony and Hesse; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Anton van der Does, Johannes Meursius

Plate 7: The Marriage of Francisco I de Medici and Johanna of Austria, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

Pieter Nolpe, After Claes Moeyaert, Caspar Barlaeus, Joan and Cornelius Blaeu

Plate 8: Emperor Maximilian II granting a crown to the coat of arms of Amsterdam, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

Pieter Nolpe, After Claes Moeyaert, Caspar Barlaeus, Joan and Cornelius Blaeu

Plate 3: The Marriage of Henry IV and Marie de Medici, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

Pieter Nolpe, After Claes Moeyaert, Caspar Barlaeus, Joan and Cornelius Blaeu

Pope Alexander III presents Doge Ziani with standards and bugles after his defeat of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, from "Il gran Teatro di Venezia" (The great theater of Venice)

Anonymous, After Giulio Angolo del Moro, Domenico Lovisa, Pope Alexander III, Sebastiano Ziani Doge of Venice

Willem, hertog van Gulik en Kleef, onderwerpt zich aan Karel V en staat Zutphen en Gelre aan hem af, 1543

Unknown Artist

Plate 11: Ferdinand greeted by the Elector of Cologne; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II, After Cornelis Schut, Johannes Meursius

Heilige monnik op audiëntie bij een Duitse keizer

Pieter de Jode (I)

A Pope Recieving a Saint

Anonymous, German, 18th century, Formerly attributed to Anonymous, German, 19th century

Saint Gregory surrounded by other saints, in front of an archway with putti holding garlands overhead

Anonymous, After Peter Paul Rubens

Congress and double Betrothal in Vienna, plate 23 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Albrecht Dürer

The Congress of Princes at Vienna

Albrecht Dürer