Francisco Goya

🦉The Spell, (1797-98) - Francisco de Goya 🦉 #art #arte

Tio Paquete by Francisco de Goya - 2 images - Art Renewal Center

An etching from a series of satires made by painter Francisco Goya. It shows Goya having fallen asleep at his work station, plagued in a nightmare by owls and bats. The painting will activate when the user falls asleep while working. It will cause repeated night terrors that will constantly awaken the person out of fear. They will become extremely tired but unable to fall asleep and will dread work. They will also become more disgruntled and become annoyed with all winged animals.

Francisco Goya's life was scarred by turmoil and war. Let’s see how these horrors affected his private life.

Francisco de Goya: “Las viejas”. Oil on canvas, 161 x 125 cm, c. 1810-1812. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

Whilst in Paris last week for the Anatomical Model conference at the Academy of Medicine (which was wonderful, by the way) I made time to visit the Musée D'Orsay's spellbinding exhibition "The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst." I and my companion spend a good three and a half hours marveling at the works--which ranged from romantic painting to Hitchcock film clips to spirit photography to decorative arts--and absorbing the text, which sought to trace a through-line…

Francisco Goya (1746–1828, Spain) - Brigand Murdering a Woman [oil], 1798 - 1800, 105.4 x 80.7 cm, private collection

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes [1746-1828] © Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado high resolution picture

Still Life with Golden Bream by Francisco Goya

The Malleus Maleficarum (Written by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, c. 1487) “Now there are two circumstances which are certainly very common at the present day, that is to say, the connexion of witches with familiars, Incubi and Succubi, and the horrible sacrifices of small children.” From The Malleus Maleficarum (Part 1, Question 2) by […]