Pope Innocent X
Pope from 1644 to 1655
- Fame64.3
- Momentum15.0
- Religious Figures rank#77
- Fame64.3
- Momentum15.0
- Religious Figures rank#77
- Wikipedia12.8K
ItalyA 17th-century pope who sat for one of history's most unsettling portraits — Velázquez's study in red that seems to x-ray ambition and unease in equal measure. The painting outlasted the pontificate.
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Giovanni Battista Pamphili was born in Rome in 1574 to a family lately arrived from Umbria, trained as a lawyer at the Collegio Romano, and climbed the Vatican ladder in his uncle's shadow — auditor of the Rota, then cardinal-priest of Sant'Eusebio. He spent years as a papal diplomat in Naples, France, and Spain before emerging from a bitterly contested conclave in September 1644, French and Spanish factions deadlocked, to succeed Urban VIII as Innocent X. His decade as pontiff proved ruthlessly pragmatic: he expanded the Holy See's temporal reach, entangled himself in the English Civil War an…
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