The Galleria Doria Pamphilj is a large private art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy, between Via del Corso and Via della Gatta. The principal entrance is on the Via del C
The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj façade on Via del Corso
The courtyard. The first floor shuttered windows correspond to a four-sided gallery, housing the collection's main paintings.
Galleria Doria Pamphilj keeps many of its most prized paintings in this room, the Aldobrandini Room. Note the Caravaggios at the lower right.
Portrait of Innocent X is a c. 1650 oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, depicting Pope Innocent X, head of the Catholic Church from 1644 to 1655. Many artists and art critics con
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
…Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg in 1767. Work was carried out under the supervision of Francesco Nicoletti, an architect from Trapani. Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X (previously Cardinal Giovan Battista Pamphilj, who became Pope in 1644) is considered to be the collection's masterpiece. Velázquez, while not idealizing…
Retrato del Papa Inocencio X. Roma, by Diego Velázquez
A copy made by Velázquez's circle, currently hanging at the National Gallery of Art, Washington