Pope Innocent X - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.720 W 073° 57.767
18T E 587523 N 4514704
This sculpture is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Waymark Code: WMKY12
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2014
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This life-sized sculpture of Pope Inncocent X depicts him to mid-torso. He wears his papal vestments,a small hat, a beard and mustache.
A Museum placard dates it to mid-17th century and indictaes that it is from a composition by Alessandro Algardi.
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"Pope Innocent X (Latin: Innocentius X; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was Pope from 15 September 1644 to his death in 1655.
Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio, in 1629.
Trained as a lawyer, he succeeded Pope Urban VIII (1623–44) on 15 September 1644, as one of the most politically shrewd pontiffs of the era, who much increased the temporal power of the Holy See...
Election
The 1644 conclave for the election of a successor to Urban VIII was long and stormy, lasting from 9 August to 15 September. The large French faction led by Pope Urban's nephews objected to the Spanish candidate, as an enemy of Cardinal Mazarin, who guided French policy. They put up their own candidate (Giulio Cesare Sacchetti) but could not establish enough support for him and agreed to Pamphilj as an acceptable compromise, though he had served as legate to Spain. Mazarin himself, bearing the French veto of Cardinal Pamphilj, arrived too late, and the election was accomplished."