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ALENZA Y NIETO, Leonardo: Satire on Romantic Suicide

🖼 Satire on Romantic Suicide, 1839
Oil on canvas
36 × 28 cm
Madrid, Spain

Dramatic chaos erupts across a cluttered room where a young man lies collapsed, surrounded by scattered books, weapons, and romantic paraphernalia in dark, theatrical shadows. Alenza savagely mocks 1830s Romantic excess and male melodrama, exposing the absurdity of fashionable suicide through grotesque satire and dark humor.

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