Francis Bacon

Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)

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Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British painter famous for his bold, unsettling figurative works created between the early 20th century and 1992. His distinctive style—featuring distorted human forms and dramatic use of color—made him one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the modern era.

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Born: 22 January 1561
Died: 9 April 1626
Works: 1568

Top works

Latin texts
New Atlantis and the City of the Sun
Ideal Commonwealths
Famous Utopias
The Shake-speare drama of The tempest

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: England
Active from: 1561-01-22
Active to: 1626-04-09

has german audiobooks

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Listeners: 976
Total plays: 1,844

1. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. His works established and popularized deductive methodologies for scientific inquiry <a h

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5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures
· 2000 · cited 10,934x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,202x

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Quotes

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
“Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.”
“Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.”
“It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech (…) that are the true ends of knowledge (…), but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them.”
“Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.

He said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers in the region of 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed, typically focused on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on single motifs; including the 1930s Picasso-influenced bio-morphs and Furies, the 1940s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the 1950s "screaming popes", the mid-to-late-1950s animals and lone figures, the early-1960s crucifixions, the mid-to-late-1960s portraits of friends, the 1970s self-portraits, and the cooler, more technical 1980s paintings.

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