Portrait of Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)

ca. 1667 (Baroque)

76.7 cm 90.1 cm

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The stately figure of the pope sits before a lavish drapery suggesting an aristocratic setting. He raises his right hand with its papal ring in a gesture of benediction. By seeing the pope blessing his audience, viewers are reminded that he is Christ's representative on eart...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 218; 1897 catalogue: no. 350, as Baciccio]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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