Francis Bacon: Study After Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953)

Try penning a portrait poem of your own:

Council of Trent ate his Diet of Worms—

Seeds of Satanic masses were sown;

The parasitical demon squirms...

Portrait of someone well known to you:

Abomination to misconstrue;

Something that is full

Of papal bull.

(poem inspired by an actual painted portrait)