Pope Leo X was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521.
Detail of the Portrait of Leo X (c. 1518–1520)
Raphael's Portrait of Leo X with his first cousins, the cardinals Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII) and Luigi de' Rossi (1518; Uffizi gallery, Florence).
Bulla Contra errores Martini Lutheri of 1521
Pope Adrian VI, born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. The only Dutchman to become pope
Portrait after Jan van Scorel, c. 1625 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
Pope Adrian VI's birthplace in Utrecht
Pope Adrian VI, 1598 engraving by Théodore Galle
Portrait of Pope Adrian VI (1568)