Artistic echoes: Monsters have a ball

12 July 2016 - 10:41
By Michael Smith

What do you do when you're an 18th Century court painter in service of an elite class that seems to be speedily going to hell in a handcart?If you're Francisco de Goya, you keep your eye on the prize; you keep painting, and you keep your thoughts to yourself.In the late 1700s, Spain's upper classes were hurtling out of control all around Goya.

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