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6 days ago · Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
May 13, 2024 · Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England (1618–21), lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue. He is remembered for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays, for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials, and as a man who claimed all knowledge as his province.
May 26, 2024 · Francis Bacon was a British painter whose powerful, predominantly figural images express isolation, brutality, and terror. The son of a racehorse trainer, Bacon was educated mostly by private tutors at home until his parents banished him at age 16, allegedly for pursuing his homosexual leanings.
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May 10, 2024 · An anthology of writings on Francis Bacon compiled by Michael Peppiatt, to be published next month, includes revealing comments on Van Gogh.
May 28, 2024 · Life | Francis Bacon. At the age of sixteen Bacon left his home in rural Ireland to try his luck in London. Follow his eventful journey to become one of Britain's most acclaimed artists. Henri Cartier-Bresson, , 1971.
May 14, 2024 · In a homage that Bacon might have enjoyed, his squalid longtime studio in London was dismantled, documented, and reassembled at the High Lane Gallery in Dublin, Bacon's birthplace, on permanent display. 'Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words,' edited by Michael Peppiatt, Thames and Hudson USA $50, 480 pages. www.thamesandhudsonusa.com
1 day ago · Among the images that Bacon collated for inclusion in the Pope paintings was a still taken from Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film Battleship Potemkin. The image is that of the screaming nurse from the ...
