Thus St. Paul in Ortega's perspective is no less an extremist than a
licentious wonder - working visionary like Simon Magus (he claimed he could fly), who may have been stimulated by St. Paul to become
more extreme than he had been.
A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously
licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the
more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go under the hammer.