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I am starting to believe that an upgrade of our computer(s) may be necessary as some simple tasks have taken ages, or proved impossible, today. Only one of those turned-out to have been due to my stupid mistake.

Francis Bacon is the most fascinating member of the so-called "School of London" - a group of figurative painters based in England from the 1970s. His distorted images, often brutal, macabre and isolated, are powerful, if not always obviously meaningful.

One of his finest is Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953).  His screaming, apparently tortured and imprisoned Pope is everything that Velázquez's version, painted in 1650 was not. Bacon's is unhinged and tyrannical, frightening and terrified, his hands gripping the arms of his golden throne. Velázquez portrays the Pope as commanding, calm and composed, in control.