In this article we will make a deep dive into the art depicting cardinals, bishops and popes throughout the centuries.

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In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1998’s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon, a sensual, sensitive biopic of the titular artist, which is screening right now via ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... some of the second-hand images that obsessed Bacon for decades. In Study for a Portrait (1952), the gaping mouth and shattered glasses of a woman shot ...

So, a show of Bacon’s portraits is, in a sense, perverse – which is plain from the off in Francis Bacon: Human Presence. Study for a Portrait (1949) isn’t a study for a portrait at all, but a ...

New York: A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Monday, topping the first night of contemporary art auctions ...

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Monday, topping the first night of contemporary art auctions that ...

Crime is a gamy ingredient in the story of Francis Bacon, the Irish-born British figurative painter who was best known for his writhing portraits and screaming popes. Like a mafia don, Bacon never ...

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