The image is split into two sections. The first is Diego Velázquez’s realistic 1650 portrait of Pope Innocent X, showing the pope in rich red and white robes, seated on a gold-trimmed throne against a dark reddish background, his expression stern and lifelike. The second is Francis Bacon’s distorted, haunting reinterpretation, depicting the pope in ghostly purple and white tones, screaming with mouth agape, the throne and figure blurred by vertical streaks and surrounded by yellow lines, set against a dark, almost prison-like backdrop.
Velázquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X (c.1650) + Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953)
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