Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral - Hardcover

Contents: Of Truth; Death; Unity in Religion; Revenge; Adversity; Simulation and Dissimulation; Parents and Children; Marriage and Single Life; Envy; Love; Great Place; Boldness; Goodness, and Goodness of Nature; Nobility; Seditions and Troubles; Atheism; Superstition; Travel; Empire; Counsel; Delays; Cunning; Wisdom for a Man's Self; Innovations; Dispatch; Seeming Wise; Friendship; Expense; The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates; Regimen of Health; Suspicion; Discourse; Plantations; Riches; Prophecies; Ambition; Masques and Triumphs; Nature in Men; Custom and Education; Fortune; Usury; Youth and Age; Beauty; Deformity; Building; Gardens; Negotiating; Followers and Friends; Suitors; Studies; Faction; Ceremonies and Respects; Praise; Vain Glory; Honor and Reputation; Judicature; Anger; Vicissitude of Things; A Fragment of an Essay of Fame; On Death.

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1909. He emerged as one of the leading painters of the 20th century during the 40s and 50s. Bacon expanded the possibilities of figurative art with a bold, expressionistic style at a time when abstraction was the dominant mode. He was also one of the first artists to depict overtly homosexual themes. He stands as a towering figure in 20th-century art, having established a huge influence on younger generations of painters. He died in 1992.