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Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 53: What a...

This looks a bit like an academic meeting. Perhaps the parrot is speaking about medicine? However don’t believe a word he says. There is many a doctor who has a...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 52: What a...

How often can soe ridiculous creature be suddenly transformed into a presumptious coxcomb who is nothing but appears to be much. That is what can be done by the ability...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 51: They s...

This business of having long nails is so pernicious that it is forbidden even in Witchcraft.  Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a legendary Spanish painter and printmaker...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 50: The Ch...

He who hears nothing, knows nothing and does nothing, belongs to the numerous family of the Chinchillas, which has always been good for nothing. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 48: Snitch...

The tale-bearing witches are the most irritating in all witchcraft and the least intelligent in that art; if they really knew something they wouldn’t blast about it. Francisco José de...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 47: A gift...

That is quite right; they would be ungrateful pupils not to visit their professor to whom they own everything they know in their diabolical science. Francisco José de Goya y...