His orthopedic black leather shoes, despite being so normal, caused great commotion. Only Benedict XVI was shown wearing black shoes, but they were far more elegant loafers. In his lifetime he had worn them red instead: and it was necessary to disprove the false scoop that they were by Prada. Pope John Paul II had them red both in life and in the casket, as his predecessors did for many centuries. Some red slippers have been preserved, but it is the iconographic evidence that documents their use: most recently color photographs and, still today but exclusively in centuries past, the very numerous portraits of pontiffs. As the Giornale dell'Arte magazine documents, even Paul III wears red slippers in Titian's portrait (1546), cherished at the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. And wearing red slippers are the 28 pontiffs painted (starting in 1481) by Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Pietro Perugino and Cosimo Rosselli along the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Pinturicchio, in the Stories frescoed between 1503 and 1508 in the Piccolomini Library at Siena Cathedral, depicted those of Eugene IV), Callistus III (imposing the cardinal's hat on Aeneas Silvius) and Aeneas Silvius himself, who became pope under the name Pius II. Even in the color and quality of the shoes Pope Francis was thus an innovator, having chosen not pomp but normality.