The face is ghoulish, three day’s worth of decomposition, and the mouth is wide open, frozen in a scream. What is captured is not power at its apex but at its unraveling, its dissolution, the idea that however omnipotent seeming a ruler, he is ultimately mortal (as Shelley immortally captured in his poem Ozymandias) and the wanton display of power a hollow pretense. In fact, grotesque subversion is the far more likely intention. With his baleful glare foregrounded amongst an embarrassment of luxury and power (a ruby ring is prominent on his hand, the same color as his lavish silk garb), Velazquez’s pope exudes an aura not altogether different from that of a 20th century dictator.īacon’s first sketch modeled on the Velazquez hardly pays homage to the pope.
At the time, Bacon was likely drawn to Velazquez’s depiction of power incarnate, given the contemporary milieu: like a contagion, fascism and its many discontents had spread throughout Europe, and even though the specter of World War II had receded into background, Stalinism was ascendant in a languishing USSR. In 1949, the Irish artist Francis Bacon began a sketch based on the iconic work-Portrait of Pope Innocent X-of Diego Velazquez. Ready to give it a try? Your first MCAT Question of the Day is below! MCAT Question of the Day Plus, our MCAT question of the day uses the same question type you’ll see on test day: multiple-choice questions with four answer choices. Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS).Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior.Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.It rotates among all for MCAT sections, covering MCAT subjects in the following areas:
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