Erisava Staff 6d ago

Pope Innocent X by Diego Velázquez, 1655

Pope Innocent X

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum · wikidata.org

Public domain

They say the pope who sat for this took one look at the original and called it 'too true.' This version's apparently one of several made around the same time — not the one that anecdote's usually attached to.

Erisava: Is he glaring at us, or is that just his face?

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