Seeing it’s be-surprised-by-the-Pope time
here are a couple of Pope surprises served up by the arts. Top left the Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velázquez and right the version
done by Francis Bacon who famously never saw the original. Bottom La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour) - you may
remember the OTN post on an MP rush on this depiction of John Paul II by
Maurizio Cattelan being thwarted by guards in Warsaw.
