When I first encountered ‘Pope Innocent X’ at the Doria
Pamphili Gallery in Rome, I was struck by one over-whelming and unshakeable
impression: that man looks exactly like
Gene Hackman. The resemblance is
uncanny. Maybe we’re all walking around
with recycled faces, our own doppelgangers lost in obscurity. One thing is for certain: Gene Hackman’s own double lived more than
three hundred years ago, he schemed and plotted to obtain ultimate power, and
he is forever immortalized in Diego Velazquez’ masterpiece of intensity and
psyche.
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