While Francis Bacon was a devout atheist and an outspoken ... and his experiences living as a prosperous member of the English Protestant minority in Ireland. “Bacon was brought up during ...

There's the food. There's the creepy painter. And then there's Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman who boldly proclaimed, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." ...

the more ought law to weed it out Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and ...

Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909, into an English family that might have preferred ... 1903 with the honorary rank of major. By the time Francis arrived, Eddy was a gentleman horse trainer.

The English edition we have not seen ... entered the lists also against him on the character of FRANCIS BACON. Mr. DIXON grounds his statements on "original documents," but we do not see that ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Irish-born painter’s unstinting bleakness, ravaged flesh and sado-masochistic homoeroticism made him the ...

What he was mostly concerned with was how images can haunt us. In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five ...

Francis Bacon was a devout Anglican remembered for ... He introduced the essay form to the English language and completed The New Atlantis, which mixed his scientific approach and his Christian ...