The Screaming Popes of Francis Bacon
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Sep 4, 2025 16:13
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Francis Bacon is the master of psychological horror – his paintings are bleak and upsetting—filled with anguished figures and grotesque creatures. Often they are frightening distortions of Christian artworks, rendered into twisted and mangled abominations.
Of all his works, perhaps the most famous is the Screaming Popes series. Seated upon a golden throne, the robed figure unleashes a haunting, agonised scream. But what is the origin of behind his disturbing paintings? What kind of mind could produce this paintings?
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CHAPTERS
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence, BBC Two (2017)
Francis Bacon's Complete Works:
https://www.francis-bacon.com/art
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FOOTAGE
The Battleship Potemkin, 1925 (dir. Sergei Eistenstein)
Francis Bacon: Fragments Of A Portrait, 1966 (dir. David Sylvester)
Francis Bacon, Peintre Anglais (dir. Pierre Koralnik 1964)
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Intro - Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian by Peter Pringle
Outro - Peaceful Ambient Music by CO.AG https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
All other music via Epidemic Sound
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