The
Portrait of Pope Innocent
X is a famous oil on canvas portrait by the
Spanish painter Diego
Velázquez, which he finished during a trip to Italy
around
1650. Many artists and art critics consider it the finest
portrait ever created.
It is housed in the Galleria Doria
Pamphili
in Rome
. The
Irish-born painter
Francis
Bacon also made a series of paintings, the
"Screaming
Popes" based on the work, now famous in their own right.
A smaller
version is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New
York
.
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