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Napoleon and his wife, Josephine, kneel as Pope Pius VII anoints the man who crowned himself emperor of France. Five years later, Pius had to surrender the Papal States (in Italy) as a prisoner of Napoleon.
Pope Clement VII refused to annul Henry VIII's marriage.
Pope Sixtus IV, lent his name to the Sistine Chapel. With frescoes by Michelangelo and Botticelli, it is a symbol of papal power, but paying for it by selling indulgences helped fuel the Reformation.
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