Innocent X

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noun

1. Giambattista Pamfili, 1574–1655, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1644–55.

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Innocent X

Those included a haunting portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon that Mr. Demetrion purchased for the Des Moines Art Center earlier in his career.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2020

Bacon was obsessed with Velázquez’s famous study of Pope Innocent X and made variations of it until 1965.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016

Part of the artist’s series of paintings inspired by Velázquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, it had last been up for sale at Christie’s in London in 1996, where it brought $2.5 million.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2014

The remains of the previous occupant, Pope Innocent X, have been rather unceremoniously moved to another location.

From BBC ● May 1, 2011

But Don Phelipe IV by his letter to the count of Siruela, his ambassador in Roma, petitioned and obtained from his Holiness Innocent X the bull commencing In supereminenti, given at Roma, November 20, 1645.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair