Pomp and Power features a series of 25 engravings by French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641-1676) entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua. Modeled after a 16th century stucco frieze in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy, by Renaissance artists Giulio Romano and Francesco Primaticcio, Antoinette’s prints were commissioned by Louis XIV’s minister of finance in 1675. This commission was part of a large-scale effort by the French government to emulate Classical Greek and Roman sculpture in French national art.