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

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

Jacob Colin

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

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

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

Attributed to Etienne DuPérac, Attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Renewal of the Alliance Between the French and the Swiss in 1663

Sébastien Le Clerc, the elder

A Gathering in a Church

Sébastien Leclerc I

The Coronation of Louis XIV

Jean Le Pautre, Published by Edme Martin

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

Plate G: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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

The Roman curia with guards in the anteroom; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'

Mathäus Küsel, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

Distribution of Rewards, plate eighteen from The Miseries of War

Jacques Callot

Council of Trent, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century, Claudio Duchetti