Pope Innocent X
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Pope Innocent X, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.
Portrait of Innocent X, by Diego Velázquez (1650, Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome)
Guido Reni's archangel Michael (Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome) tramples a Satan with the vividly recognizable features of Pope Innocent X.
Bronze statue of Innocent X from 1645 to 1649, by Alessandro Algardi.
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X is a 1953 painting by Irish-British artist Francis Bacon. It shows a distorted version of Pope Innocent X, head of the Catholic Church from 1644 to
Pope Innocent X
…Pamphilj Gallery). This portrait inspired the "Screaming Pope" paintings by 20th-century painter Francis Bacon, the most famous of which is Bacon's Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X. Innocent X has been described as irritable in his later years. In March 1654, Innocent X suddenly expelled his personal physician of eight years…
Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511–12. National Gallery, London
Titian, Portrait of Pope Paul III, 1545–46
Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Innocent X, 1650. Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome