when the 20th century artist, Francis Bacon, is the topic, most of your a priori knowledge of Francis Bacon is not power. "ipsa scientia potestas est" ["knowle

when the 20th century artist, Francis Bacon, is the topic, most of your a priori knowledge of Francis Bacon is not power. "ipsa scientia potestas est" ["knowledge itself is power"] - Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae 1597 in the past few days there was one of the periodic flurries of interest in Francis Bacon on reddit, stimulated I think by the reappearance of the user franceisbacon and I can't help but think that led to this topic showing up here when it did, also a periodic showing.