Battcher said he was at the Vatican in November 2022, just feet away, when Pope Francis blessed the original “Sheltering” statue. “When I was there, I said, 'There’s got to be a way with ...

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Papers, photographs, sketches, tubes of paint and canvases litter Francis Bacon’s London studio. It’s a place where friends, lovers and eccentric figures pass through, haunting his canvases ...

De Felice dedicated the 13-foot statue to his former school in 2010. "A symbol and standard of their values and history and faith," said De Felice. Around three years later, after Pope Francis was ...

The work of art that changed everything for me is Francis Bacon’s “screaming Pope”, after Diego Velázquez’s 17th-century ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican said. The pontiff's ...

Pope Francis, celebrated as a humble yet forceful pontiff, died on April 21 leaving behind a rich legacy of inclusion and activism. His leadership – of over some 1.4 billion Catholics globally ...

Number 63 Baggot Street, in the heart of the city’s Georgian core, was the childhood home of the painter Francis Bacon. Over four storeys, a basement and a “turnkey” mews at the back ...

152.4 x 116.5 cm. (60 x 45.9 in.) ...