Innocent X
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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
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
Yet this portrait of Innocent X by Velázquez inspired some of the darkest images of human impotence and tragicomic failure in modern art.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2013
The remains of the previous occupant, Pope Innocent X, have been rather unceremoniously moved to another location.
From BBC ● May 1, 2011
It is a fitting companion to a portrait hanging on the same wall, that of the aristocratic young Cardinal Pamphili, a nephew of Pope Innocent X, also by the great Spaniard.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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