Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X - Francis Bacon (1953)

Velázquez's original:

More info on the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Innocent_X

More info on Bacon's painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Vel%C3%A1zquez's_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X

Dammit, who left the Ark of the Covenant open again?

This is what happens to you as pope if you don't drink any holy water for one year.

Seen it happen to my predecessor. Haunting shit

Further conversation on this picture is here:

https://lemmy.world/post/4484952

Awesome. This could totally be an album cover on !thrashmetal@lemmy.world

Ugh! I love Bacon's work immensely, been thinking a lot about him lately. I wish some day I can make my bushstrokes speak as much as his.