Plate B: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

Plate H: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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

Plate C: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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

The Anointing of Louis XVI at His Coronation in Reims Cathedral, June 11, 1775

François Joseph Belanger

Plate D: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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

The Coronation of King Charles the II in Westminster Abbey, April 23, 1661 (from John Ogilby's "The Entertainment of...Charles II," London, 1662)

Wenceslaus Hollar

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

State Baptism of a Child of Noble Blood

Anonymous, Italian, Florentine, second half of the 16th century

Interior View of Strasbourg Cathedral

Attributed to Isaak Brun

Funeral of Francesco de' Medici

Etched by Stefano della Bella

Catafalque of the Emperor Mathias with performance of funeral inside the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence

Jacques Callot

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

Jacob Colin