Velázquez’s Pope eclipses Bacon's 'silly' screamers
So magnificent is the Spaniard’s painting that those screams fade to whimpers.
Paul Pfeiffer, Fragment of a Crucifixion, 1999
So he looks into the camera and kind of screams. And that image is digitized and looped ... I thought of it as being in a way somewhat like the treatment of the Pope in Francis Bacon's painting, where ...
Velázquez's Pope Eclipses Bacon's 'Silly' Screamers
Recently, I was about to see a painting by a favourite artist that I had never viewed in the flesh—the Portrait of Pope Innocent X ... in various stages of scream. After Bacon's shrill horror ...
The Rape of the Lock
It has been the aim of the editor in preparing this little book to get together sufficient material to afford a student in one of our high schools or colleges adequate and typical specimens of the ...
Francis Bacon's painting of Lucian Freud is set to go under the hammer with a guide price of £35MILLION after six decades in a private collection
A Francis Bacon painting is set to be auctioned off later this month, The portrait of Lucian Freud is expected to go for over £35 million on June 29 during a live-streamed auction.
Frail Pope is helped to his feet at weekly audience and is pushed around in a wheelchair
A frail Pope Francis had to be helped to his feet at his weekly audience today - days after speculation swirled over whether he was planning to resign. Rumours that the 85-year-old may resign ...
All about Art History : Page 15
The Romantic "Third of May, 1808" is the scene of an historic event in which Napoleonic soldiers slaughtered townspeople. Goya shows the soldiers from behind, giving the enemy no face, in order to ...
VIDEO: Watch violent vandalism attack on Catholic church in Washington state
Next, the assailant makes obscene gestures toward the door, smashes the glass again with the can of spray paint and pushes the door. Then the person appears to scream at someone inside the ...
Pope Pleads Guilty To Murdering Wife, Stepdaughter, Infant Son
It was displayed at the hearing. Det. Tate said Pope stated that he went back into the main part of the house and found Brianna screaming at him. He said she went to her bedroom, "slamming the ...
Ben Stokes makes clear England top-order statement about Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope
England's young guns have been told by Ben Stokes to go out and make their mark in the Test arena with a blank canvas on which to paint their masterpieces. Whether it is Zak Crawley or Ollie Pope ...
The Times & The Sunday Times Homepage
The Metropolitan Police has been put in special measures by the policing watchdog after it highlighted systemic problems including scandals and a failure to log 69,000 crimes. Her Majesty’s ...
