Artwork

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 46: Correc...

Without correction and censure one cannot get on in any faculty, and that of witchcraft needs uncommon talent, application, maturity, submission and docility to the advice of the great Witch...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 45: There ...

Those who reach eighty suck little children; those under 18 suck grown ups. It seems man is born and lives to have substance sucked out of him.  Francisco José de...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 44: They s...

They spin finely and the devil himself will not be able to undo the wapr which they contrive. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a legendary Spanish painter...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 43: The Sl...

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 42: Thou w...

Who would not say that these two calaviers are cavalry (riding beasts)? Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a legendary Spanish painter and printmaker who is renowned as...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 41: Neithe...

He is quite right to have his portrait painted; thus those who do not know him and have not seen him will know who he is. Francisco José de Goya...