'Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953' is an art piece created by Irish painter Francis Bacon. The focus of this nightmarish image is the face of the Pope which is set in a ghoulish scream of silent pain as he sits in what seems to be and electric chair. In Bacons adaptation he has painted dark, thin drapes which enclose the pope to silently scream in existential agony. These drapes could symbolise the calignosity that has seeped into the Catholic system casting a shadow over the goodness that they strive to do, but however, it could be seen as a veil between life and death, one that separates our worlds from what we see and what is actually in front of us. The use of purple in his colour pallet is there to epitomize its
