Study from Innocent X
Francis Bacon (1962)
Francis Bacon’s Study from Innocent X recasts the papal portrait as an image of <strong>enthroned vulnerability</strong>. Hemmed by thin <strong>cage-lines</strong> on a curved <strong>stage-like dais</strong>, the red-suffused figure trembles between flesh and regalia, turning authority into exposure <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>.
