'PLAY OF MIRRORS'
17TH CENTURY ART THRILLER
This year's Series Mania was cancelled due to corona, but one of the projects that was supposed to be pitched to studios there is
PLAY OF MIRRORS (aka
Velazquez in Rome) epic TV series in which famous 17th
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| Inspired by a book by Eduardo Chamorro, the series comes from writer and director Pedro Barbero and Vertice 360 production house |
century painter Velásquez travels to Rome to portray Pope Innocent X while in an undercover mission for the Spanish kingdom in war with France. He will be
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| During
his second visit to Italy at the age of 50, Velasquez actually made
this portrait of Pope Innocent X who awarded with a medal and a golden
chain. He hung it in his official visitors' waiting room. |
the main suspect of a set of murders, facing the most powerful woman in Rome, Olimpia Pamphili, Pope’s sister-in-law and head of secret society, The Black Order (the first counter-espionage agency in history).
