3-016-037 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Cardinal Bentivoglio, 1645-1650. Bust portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona (1579-1644), which shows him slightly turned to the right, with short hair, moustache and beard, wearing a flat collar and buttoned cloak, and set in an octagonal frame. A patron of the arts and skilled papal diplomat, Bentivoglio was nonetheless notorious as one of the signatories of the 1633 papal condemnation of his erstwhile friend Galileo.