Pope Clement X
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio)
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Pope Clement X, painted around 1670–71 by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Il Baciccio, captures the elderly pontiff with the psychological penetration and painterly bravura that made Baciccio the leading portraitist of the papal court in late seventeenth-century Rome. Close friend and favored painter of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Baciccio absorbed the sculptor's dynamic sense of movement and translated it into a distinctly painterly Baroque idiom.
The composition captures Clement X, elected pope at the advanced age of nearly eighty, with unflinching naturalism — his advanced years rendered without flattery, yet with a dignity befitting his office. Baciccio's loose, vigorous brushwork and rich handling of the papal vestments' reds and whites exemplify the vibrant, theatrical energy of Roman Baroque portraiture at its height.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) |
| Year | ca. 1670–71 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 30 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (77.5 x 61.6 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
