Photos of Pope Pius IX
The art of photography developed during Pius IX's pontificate, and he was the first pope to be photographed, mainly in his later years.
Some contemporaries of Pius IX like Cardinal Giuseppe Pecci considered photography inferior to painting and refused to be photographed. Pius, however, was open to the new form of art.
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—Pope Pius IX (1792–1878)