Tomb of Sixtus IV.
Bronze. Antonio Pollaiolo. 1493.

Antonio Pollaiolo (1431-1498) was commissioned to make the sepulchral monument by Giuliano Della Rovere, later Pope Julius II. The latter was the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere, a great humanist, who also came from the school of poverty in the Seraphic Order of St Francis of Assisi.

A few of the many items on display in the Treasury Museum