Banquet of the Piacevoli

Banquet of the Piacevoli, Medici coat of arms at top center

Stefano della Bella

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

A man seated in a chair on a stepped platform holds an audience, two pointing men stand in the foreground, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, Claude Nicolas Malapeau

La Défilé a Pied (The Parade on Foot), from "Le Combat a la Barrière"

Jacques Callot, Henri Humbert

Queen Elizabeth in Parliament

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

La Défilé a Pied (The Parade on Foot), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Phillipe

Jacques Callot, Henri Humbert

La Condamnation a Mort (The Condemnation to Death), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

Jacques Callot

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

Attributed to Etienne DuPérac, Attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Council of Trent, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century, Claudio Duchetti

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

La Condamnation a Mort (The Condemnation to Death), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

Jacques Callot

Canonization of Five Cardinals in Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome

Giuseppe Tiburtio Vergelli, Matteo Gregorio Rossi