Goya depicted the demons that arise when reason sleeps.
c. 1800 - 1848
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Enrique Chagoya on Goya’s Los Caprichos
Contemporary artist Enrique Chagoya discusses the transcendent meanings of Goya's etchings of Spanish society at the turn of the 19th century
Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV
Goya depicts the king’s family in scintillating detail… but the sparkle of the monarchy is beginning to fade.
Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One Of His Sons
Goya’s taste in home décor is called into question by this cannibalistic meditation on the nature of power.
Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808
A sinister tale of bloodlust and nepotism led to the tragic events Goya depicts in “the first modern painting.”
Francisco Goya, And there’s nothing to be done from The Disasters of War
This print wasn’t made public until long after Goya’s death, for fear of exposing his controversial political views.
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Embodied by a swarm of airborne predators, the follies of an irrational society haunt an artist’s dreams.
