Artists | Eyewitness to Horror

Published 35 years after his death, Goya’s The Disasters of War has etched the cruel suffering of war into our collective memory. When French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops invaded Spain in December 1807, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) had been First Court Painter to King Carlos IV for more than three decades. Goya …

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