Pontificate posters & prints

Medal of Pope Alexander VIII Anonymous

Medal of Pope Alexander VIII Anonymous

Pope Sixtus V, surrounded by the churches, buildings and monuments built or restored during his pontificate Italian School

Pontifical Ceremony in SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1782, c. 1783 Francesco Guardi

Pontifical Ceremony in SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1782, c. 1783 Francesco Guardi

The Pontifical Mass Antoine Le Nain

A Muscobite Bishop, in His Pontifical Habit JB Bird

The Pontifical Mass or, The Procession Antoine Le Nain

Grand pontifical procession passing the castle of Saint Angelo Anonymous

Pius VII, the Roman Pontiff James Gardner

Portrait of Pope Pius IV, 1559 Italian School

Pope Benedict XIV presenting the Encyclical 'Ex Omnibus' to the Comte de Stainville, later Duc de Choiseul, 1757 Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

Christ Enthroned surrounded by the Apostles and Saints Pudentiana and Praxedis, in the Apse Paleo-Christian

Bartolommeo de' Sacchi writing 'Historia de Vitis Pontificum Romanorum', 1505 Italian School

The Procession of Pope Innocent XII from the Vatican on his formally taking possession of St John, 1692 Italian School

Pope Pontian I Anonymous

Untitled Carlo Crivelli

Il Penseroso, the Pope in the Vatican Anonymous

Detail of Heaven and Angels from The Glorification of Saint Ignatius Andrea Pozzo

Pope Julius II ordering Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael to construct the Vatican and St. Peter's Emile Jean Horace Vernet

The Florentine delegates celebrate the feast of St. John, their patron saint, at the Council of Constance Ulrich von Richental

The Sacrament of Ordination (Christ presenting the Keys to Saint Peter) Nicolas Poussin

Benedict XIII Presiding over the Provincial Roman Synod of 1725, Basilica of St. John Lateran, 1725 Pier Leone Ghezzi

Bishop Pontano kneeling before St. Mary Magdalene, Magdalene Chapel, c.1320 Giotto

Pope Urban II. Preaching the First Crusade in the Market Place of Clermont Anonymous

Personifications of Faith, Hope and Love Giovanni Battista (after) Tiepolo

Buonaparte at Rome Giving Audience in State Anonymous

Letter from Alexander Pope to Charles Montagu, 3rd December 1714 Alexander Pope

Detail of the dispute of St. Catherine of Alexandria with the philosopher, in front of the Roman Emperor Maxentius Bernardino di Betto Pinturicchio

Michelangelo presents his plans for Santa Caterina della Ruota Anonymous

Portrait of Emanuella Pignatelli, Countess Potocka, 1880 Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat

Pope Julius II ordering Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael to construct the Vatican and St. Peter's, 1827 Emile Jean Horace Vernet

Undated Engraving Of Pope Leo X Anonymous

Relieving Guard at The Vatican John Tenniel

Penitential procession Friedrich Overbeck

Bernadotte, Prince of Pontecorvo Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse