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Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans (1561–1626) English statesman and philosopher. He became a barrister in 1582 and entered Parliament two years later. In the 1590s he prospered as a member of the
ESSEX faction at court, and published his first edition of witty, aphoristic
Essays (1597). Under James I Bacon rose to be Lord Chancellor (1618). In 1621 he was impeached by Parliament for accepting bribes and his political career was ruined. In retirement he devoted himself to literary and philosophical work and contributed significantly to the European Scientific Revolution and to the
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Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...system is made out of optimistic stuff," Francis Bacon told David Sylvester in the early '70s...two - Farson's The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon and Andrew Sinclair's Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times - have already...
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Francis Bacon.
Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review; 5/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; FRANCIS BACON. By Daniel R. Coquillette. Stanford...Press. 1992. Pp. x, 358. $39.50. Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England -- the...is old; it remains important. With Francis Bacon,(1) Daniel Coquillette(2) provides...
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FRANCIS BACON'S FIERCE ART AND CHAOTIC LIFE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/8/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the English artist Francis Bacon, should disturb...psychological conjecture. Bacon's father trained...of shy, asthmatic Francis did nothing to endear...nurse, lived with Bacon and sustained them...she later told Francis's visitors, when...
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Cover story: Demon lover Screaming popes, tormented faces - there's a lot of unexplained anguish in Francis Bacon's paintings, says Philip Hoare. Can new revelations about his torturous relationships shed any light on the subject?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/13/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...1980s in South Kensington, I saw Francis Bacon hopping on the back of a bus...as paradoxical as his art. Francis Bacon was as recognisable as his paintings...us face to face with the real Francis Bacon. The first of these, a new book...
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THE COUNTRY HOUSE FRANCIS BACON RETREATED TO WHEN HIS SLEAZY LIFE OF SOHO EXCESS THREATENED HIS SANITY; The brother of the artist's 'only true friend' is selling the Suffolk retreat which was the scene of many a drink-charged Bohemian party.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 7/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...ALEXIS PARR For artist Francis Bacon, there were only two...much to the agony of Bacon. Unlike the other guests...Elvis gospel number. 'Francis didn't like stuffy dinner...My brother was never Francis Bacon's lover but they were...
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Stephen A. McKnight. The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Stephen A. McKnight. The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought. Columbia: University of Missouri Press...s most recent book, The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought, may seem odd to those acquainted with...
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Francis Bacon and the Photobooth: Facing the Homosexual in Post-war Britain
Magazine article from: Visual Culture in Britain; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...David Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon provided the public with an unprecedented...a revelation, helping to secure Bacon's reputation as the leading post...original edition only three images of Bacon appeared: two Self-Portraits reproduced...
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Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate 'The Advancement of Learning', 1605-2005.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought...significant changes and advancements in Bacon scholarship, as well in its range, subtlety...of contextualization as in its impact on Bacon's historical reputation. He emerges as...
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The secret world of Francis Bacon When the artist died in 1992 he left a dazzling treasure trove on his studio floor. Here, we publish for the first time some of those images, now known to have inspired his work.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/12/2000; ; 700+ words
; The dismantling of Francis Bacon's London flat and its painstaking...s dismantling and reassembling of Bacon's studio has taken many months of...Tutankhamen, who was dug up in the year Francis Bacon entered his teens. Moving and reconstructing...
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Hunt for `missing' works of Francis Bacon The discovery of more paintings hidden in the artist's cluttered studio has prompted a legal puzzle, reports Cal McCrystal
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/12/2000; ; 700+ words
; THE DEATH of Francis Bacon, arguably Britain...journal: "I knew Francis since the late 1970s...dyslexic who lived with Bacon but was not his lover...Clarke. "Since Francis died, I had been...studio and contents to Bacon's native Dublin...
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Bacon, Francis
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Francis Bacon Born: October 28, 1909 Dublin, Ireland...painter and artist The English artist Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and original...obsessive intensity of his work. Early life Francis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October...
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Sir Francis Bacon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Francis Bacon The English philosopher, statesman, and author Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the chief figure...culture of the English-speaking world. Francis Bacon was born in London on Jan. 22, 1561...
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Francis Bacon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Francis Bacon 1910-92, English painter, b. Dublin...s Innocent X. Often large in scale, Bacon's works focus on shockingly grotesque...1993); D. Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon (1975); Hirshhorn Mus., Washington...
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Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
BACON, FRANCIS (1561 – 1626) BACON, FRANCIS (1561 – 1626), English natural philosopher, essayist, and statesman. Francis Bacon was the youngest son of Elizabeth I's lord keeper...
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Bacon, Sir Francis
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
BACON, SIR FRANCIS Sir Francis Bacon was an English lawyer and statesman whose philosophical theories...no worse torture than the torture of laws." — Sir Francis Bacon Bacon, a man of great intellect and energy, was often torn...
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