Series of Papal Portraits

perpetually in progress

Sources

H. K. Mann, “The Portraits of the Popes.” Papers of the British School at Rome 9, no. 6 (1920): 159–204.

Brusher’s Popes through the Ages (although he often uses a portrait of one pope to portray another)

Objects and Monuments

Old Saint Peter’s
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS. Barb.lat.2733.pt.1
108v-109r – south wall, with unlabeled, indistinguishable from one another portrait medallions
111v-112r – details of medallion frieze, still unlabeled, minimally distinguishable from one another portrait medallions
113v-114r – north wall, with unlabeled, indistinguishable from one another portrait medallions
116v & 118r – details of medallion frieze
120v-121r – west wall, with unlabeled, indistinguishable from one another portrait medallions
then beginning at 180r, portraits of popes from their tombs, accompanying drawings of their tombs and also some historical scenes – 180r Nicholas V; 180v Urban VI; 181v Innocent VII; 198r Leo I; 218v Pius III; 229v Sixtus IV; 253r Memoria for Peter by Anacletus; 254r Altar for Peter by Sylvester; 255r Paul V; 257r Leo I; 258r Gregory I

Also, papal series in San Giovanni in Laterano & San Paolo fuori le mura, plus single portraits throughout the churches of Rome

– Codex aureus of Echternach, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca, Cod. Vitrinas 17, folio 4v to 6r (1045/6)
Folio 4v: From top left corner – Peter, Linus, Cletus, Clement, Anacletus, Evaristus, Alexander I, Sixtus I, Telesphorus, Hyginus, Anicetus, Pius
Folio 5r: From top left corner – Soter, Eleutherius, Victor I, Zephyrinus, Callixtus, Urban I, Anterus, Pontianus, Fabian, Cornelius, Lucius I, Stephen I
Folio 5v: From top left corner – Sixtus II, Dionysius, Felix I, Euthychianus, Caius, Marcellinus, Marcellus I, Eusebius, Miltiades, Sylvester, Mark, Julius I
Folio 6r: From top left corner – Liberius, Felix II, Damasus, Siricius, Anastasius I, Innocent I, Zosimus, Boniface I, Celestine I, Sixtus II, Leo I, Hilary

– Missal of Ratmannus of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Domschatz, MS. 37 (DS 37), folio 119r (1159): Left, top to bottom: Telesphorus of Rome, Sixtus I, Gelasius I, Gregory ; Right, top to bottom: Leo I the Great, Gregory the Great, Innocent I, Sergius I.