The Disasters of War Goya Francisco Paperback
The Disasters of War Goya Francisco Paperback The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of…
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The Disasters of War Goya Francisco Paperback
The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France.
The etchings were not published until 1863, some 35 years after his death. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to immortalize them in a series of etchings.The artist himself never saw the results. By then, the passions of the Napoleonic era had subsided and the satirical implications in Goya's work were less likely to
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