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Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, created during a trip to Italy around 1650.Many artists and art critics consider it the finest portrait ever created. [1]
Innocent X is also the subject of Portrait of Innocent X, a famous painting by Diego Velázquez housed in the family gallery of Palazzo Doria (Doria 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.
Velázquez was commissioned by Innocent X to paint the portrait as from life, the pope's motive being to increase his prestige. However, Velázquez did not flatter his sitter, and the painting is noted for its realism. It is an unflinching portrait of a highly intelligent and shrewd but ageing man.
Figure with Meat is a 1954 painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.The figure is based on the Pope Innocent X portrait by Diego Velázquez; however, in the Bacon painting the Pope is shown as a gruesome figure and placed between two bisected halves of a cow.
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Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X; Study from Innocent X; Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971; U. Untitled (Pope)
Study from Innocent X is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon, from 1962.It is held in a private collection. [1] Based on the Portrait of Innocent X by Diego Velázquez, the work depicts a distorted image of the red-robed pope, sitting on a dark red chair on a platform inside a cuboid cage indicated by thin black lines, standing on a light brownish yellow ...
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X; Study from Innocent X; Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971; U. Untitled (Pope)