Francis Bacon (1561–1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on ...

Francis Thomas Bacon invented the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell a clean, high-efficiency power source that helped propel Apollo ...

Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and ...

Francis Bacon, the science philosopher ... to make a convincing argument. Scientific literature has never been published at greater rates or in greater quantities. Scientists therefore need to make ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...

In a somewhat spooky coincidence, a new Francis Bacon exhibition ... always just enough humanity left for us to grasp on to. Bacon’s work has always had a close relationship to cinema.

Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the perfect subject in its stirring, splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence.

the artist Francis Bacon’s studio. This was to be a retrospective of the artist’s work, nowhere near the scale of his exhibitions in London, Paris, and New York but notable as the first show ...

First of two parts AFTER the announcement of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, I remain bothered ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said ...