2. Francisco Goya, The Sleep of
Reason Produces Monsters , No.
43 from Los Caprichos (The
Caprices)
1796-98; published 1799
Etching and aquatint
21.6 x 15.2 cm.
3. Francisco Goya, La cometa (The Kite), 1778, tapestry cartoon. 269 x 285
cm. Prado museum, Madrid, Spain.
4. FRANCISCO GOYA, The Family of Charles IV, 1800. Oil on canvas,
approx. 9’ 2” x 11’. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
8. Francisco Goya, The Witches'
Sabbath, 1797-98, oil on canvas,
44 x 31 cm. Madrid, Museo
Lázaro Galdiano
9. Francisco Goya, Los Chinchillas,
No. 50 from Los Caprichos (The
Caprices)
1799, etching and aquatint
20.8 x 15.1 cm.
10. FRANCISCO GOYA, The Third of May 1808, 1814. Oil on canvas, approx. 8’ 8” x
11’ 3” Museo del Prado, Madrid. Note the Franciscan priest about to be executed.
11. The Prado museum, Madrid, Spain - 2008 Goya exhibition with The Second of May,
1808 (left) and The Third of May, 1808 (right), both painted in 1814
12. FRANCISCO GOYA, (left) This is Worse, # 37; (right) Ravages of War, #40, from
The Disasters of War series of 82 prints, etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1810-20,
(left) French execution, mutilated Spanish man impaled on a tree; (right) women
raped and murdered. The Spanish guerrillas practiced such atrocities against the
French occupiers.
Spanish War of Independence against French occupation,
1808-1814 // “Guerrilla” (little war)
13. Francisco GOYA, Disasters of War: Scarred for Life, 1810-20
To see all 80 prints in the series:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Los_desastres_de_la_guerra
14. Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War 79: Truth is Dead, ca 1810-20,
etching, 7x9in.
15. FRANCISCO GOYA, Saturn Devouring
One of His Children, 1819–1823. Detail of
a detached fresco on canvas, full size
approx. 4’ 9” x 2’ 8”. Museo del Prado
Madrid.
The horrors of both “reason” and
“unreason.” Monstrous side of humanity.
This painting is one of 14 in a series known
as the Black Paintings.
