While putting together my links on sculptures of past popes, I noticed that the Web Gallery of Art site (one of the world's finest sites) permits you to search for artworks by location. So it occurred to me that I could try putting together a kind of "tour" of the interior of St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
To get started, here is an impressive monument to Pope Sixtus IV, 1484-93, by Antonio della Pollaiuolo (bronze) --
view from the front from side from above
Another very fine work --
Tomb of Pope Gregory XIII, 1719-1725, by C. Rusconi (marble) (second view)
Two influential, almost contemporaneous, tombs --
Tomb of Pope Urban VIII, 1627-47, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (golden bronze and marble) Tomb of Pope Leo XI, 1634-44, by A. Algardi (marble) (second view)
Another tomb by Bernini --
Tomb of Pope Alexander VII, 1671-78, by G.L. Bernini (marble & gilded bronze) (second view, detail)
And here are some other, more extravagant but less pleasing papal tombs within the walls of St. Peter's --
Tomb of Pope Innocent VIII, 1492-98, by A. della Pollaiuolo (gilded bronze) (detail) Tomb of Pope Paul III, 1549-75, by Guglielmo della Porta (bronze and marble) Tomb of Pope Clement XIII, 1792, by Antonio Canova (marble)
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