All Francis Bacon's oil paintings
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95307 Fragment of a Crucifixion Fragment of a Crucifixion 1950 Type Oil and cotton wool on canvas[1] Dimensions 140 cm x 108.5 cm cyf
30912 Painting Painting mk68 Oil and tempera on canvas New York Museum of Modern Art 1946 Britain
Francis Bacon
English , 1561-1626 British statesman and philosopher, father of modern scientific method. He studied at Cambridge and at Gray's Inn. A supporter of the Earl of Essex, Bacon turned against him when Essex was tried for treason. Under James I he rose steadily, becoming successively solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), and lord chancellor (1618). Convicted of accepting bribes from those being tried in his court, he was briefly imprisoned and permanently lost his public offices; he died deeply in debt. He attempted to put natural science on a firm empirical foundation in the Novum Organum (1620), which sets forth his scientific method. His elaborate classification of the sciences inspired the 18th-century French Encyclopedists, and his empiricism inspired 19th-century British philosophers of science. His other works include The Advancement of Learning (1605), . Related Artists to : | Carlos Schwabe | Govaert Flinck | Anton Hickel | Daniel Schultz | POLACK, Jan |