 The Habsburgs claimed the right to exercise over papal election, the "jus exclusivae", and he served as their intermediary in subsequent papal conclaves when they chose to exercise that right.The French invaders had removed many works of art from the Villa Albani, which had been built for Alessandro Albani, who filled it with his collection of antiquities and ancient Roman sculpture.In 1815 Giuseppe Albani reclaimed them but sold them rather than pay the costs of transporting them to Rome.