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250th Roman Pontiff
Pius VI
PIVS Sextus
Angelo Onofrio Melchiorre Natale Giovanni Antonio Braschi
249th Successor of St Peter · 1775–1799 · Italy · b. Cesena, Papal States
1775
Elected
1799
Reign ended
24 years
Length
18th
Century
The Life
Motto: Floret in Domo Domini ("It blossoms in the House of God") Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. Condemned the French Revolution; expelled from the Papal States by the French from 1798 until his death. Last pope to be a patron of Renaissance art.
Portrait: Pompeo Batoni / Wikimedia Commons