The website of the Liturgical Arts Journal has in interesting article about the way in which different heraldic artists have rendered the arms of the successors of Pope Pius XII.
The author, Marco Foppoli, is an heraldic designer and artist and his critique is good as to unimaginative design and execution, as well as his comments about the lamentable abandonment of the Papal tiara - monarchs who do not have coronation ceremonies still have crowns over their shields, even if no physical crown exists at all, as in Belgium and Monaco.
The illustrated article can be seen seen and appreciated at Italian Heraldist Marco Foppoli on the Challenges of Contemporary Approaches to Papal Heraldry
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