Detail of the funerary monument to Pope Innocent XI, by the French sculptor Pierre-Etienne Monnot, housed within St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

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