In 1704, foreign dignitaries and members of Pope Clement XI’s papal court in Rome would have been surprised when they received and turned over his annual medal (Figure 18). Each year, the reigning pope commissioned a medal in gold, silver, and bronze with his profile on the front and a commemoration of a key event from the previous year on the reverse. The reverse of Clement XI’s 1704 medal showed the interior of the new Casa di Correzione, a prison for juvenile delinquents housed in the Ospizio di S. Michele a Ripa, and the interior was filled with movement. Boys laboured at workbenches and desks, guards and master craftsmen strolled among the workbenches to supervise the boys, and other guards watched and conversed from the balconies in front of the cells. Carlo Fontana, the architect of the Casa di Correzione and the designer of the medal, had even amplified these movements by adding well-dressed figures who walked around the workbenches to observe the prison’s daily life. So important were these movements, moreover, that the building itself was pushed to the margins of the medal. Only thin slivers of walls appear to left and right, just enough to note the three tiers of cells with their balustrades flanking the central space. Previous annual papal medals, in contrast, had commemorated new buildings by offering scenes emptied of people and so had showcased the architect’s design.