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This artist, the subject of the 2021 biography Revelations, received a radiograph of Michael Sadler’s skull in response to a painting of a wispy, white figure splaying its arms on a field of black. This former rugmaker worked from a huge stock of photos that included X-rays, Muybridge prints, and Matthias Grünewald (“GREW-nuh-valt”) reproductions. This artist suppressed most of his paintings that predated a bright orange triptych depicting a set of limbless Eumenides. (10[1])This artist copied the mouth of a nurse from Battleship Potemkin (10[1])for a series that includes an entry in which the subject is flanked by raw meat. This painter of Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion created several variations on a portrait by Diego Velázquez. (10[1])For 10 points, what British (10[1])artist painted screaming popes? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Francis Bacon (The painting in the first sentence is the 1933 Crucifixion.)
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