Innocent X

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

On the opposite wall is a version of Velázquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X: the ultimate painterly commission, which he’d been gunning for since his arrival in Rome and for which the Pareja portrait functioned as a job application.

From New York Times

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

Bacon famously based his popes on Velázquez’s Portrait of Innocent X – and this enigmatic face in a mirror echoes another Velázquez painting that was kept just a short stroll from Soho: Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery.

From The Guardian

Sotheby’s said on Friday it was selling Study for a Head 1952, part of a collection inspired by Diego Velázquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, which helped to establish Bacon’s reputation in the 1950s.

From The Guardian

He was directly influenced by Velazquez’s Innocent X, saying he was “haunted and obsessed by the image … its perfection”; as well as a still of a screaming nurse shot through the eye from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin.

From The Guardian