Title: Portrait of Pope Innocent X
Description: The Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, 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 Pamphilj in Rome. A smaller version is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a study is on display at Apsley House in London. The Irish-born painter Francis Bacon painted a series of variants of this painting called the "Screaming Popes", which are now famous in their own right.
Author(s): Diego Velázquez