Artwork

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 10: Love a...

See here a Calderonian lover who, unable to laugh at his rival, dies in the arms of his beloved and loses her by his daring. It is inadvisable to draw...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 9: Tantalus

If he were a better lover and less of a bore, she would revive.  Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a legendary Spanish painter and printmaker who is...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 8: So they...

The woman who cannot take care of herself belongs to the first who seizes her, and when the mischief is done, people are surprised that she has been carried off....

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 7: Even th...

How can he make her out?  In order to know what she is, a monocle is not enough; judgement and experience of the world are needed and these are precisely...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 6: Nobody ...

The world is a masquerade. Face, dress and voice, all are false. All wish to appear what they are not, all deceive and do not even know themselves.  Francisco José...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 5: Two of ...

It is often disputed whether men are worse than women or the contrary, but the vices of the one and the other comes from bad upbringing. Wherever the men are...