Portrait of Innocent X
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| Portrait of Pope Innocent X |
| Diego Velázquez, c. 1650 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 114 × 119 cm |
| Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome |
The Portrait of Pope Innocent X is a famous oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, which he finished during a trip to Italy around 1650. Many artists and art critics consider it the finest portrait ever created.[citation needed] It is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphili in Rome. The Irish-born painter Francis Bacon also made a series of paintings, the "Screaming Popes" based on the work, now famous in their own right.
A smaller version is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York.
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