Innocent X (2023)Oil painting
by Nicolas Maureau

“Innocent X” is the fourth installment in the “In Majesty” series. It represents Innocent X, in reference to the portrait of the pope executed by Velazquez in 1650. The painting takes up more broadly the iconography of portraits of the pope, sitting haloed in red initiated by Raphael.
The portrait of an innocent X, revisited by Bacon, has become an icon of art history, yet when I saw it in Rome it was a real aesthetic shock that gripped me.

Materials used:

oil painting

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Photorealistic
• Subject: People and portraits

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