Oil on canvas
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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_Velázquez’s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X
Dammit, who left the Ark of the Covenant open again?
This looks like the mid season boss from a shitty but watchable anime.
Further conversation on this picture is here:
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
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.
