Pope II

Pope II, is a painting by the Irish painter Francis Bacon. The 198 cm × 137 cm tall picture, painted in oil on canvas, is part of a three-part series (Pope I, Pope II and Pope III) from 1951. It shows a screaming pope sitting on his throne, surrounded by a cage-like line construction. Until 1971, the year in which he completed his last papal painting, Francis Bacon dealt almost continuously with the papal portrait innocent X, which Velázquez painted in Rome in 1650. The painting is now in the collection of the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim.