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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Phantom Dancing with Castanets

🖼 Phantom Dancing with Castanets, 1824-28
Black chalk
189 × 139 cm
Madrid, Spain

Spectral figures swirl in shadowy darkness, their forms rendered in loose brushwork as a phantom dances with castanets. Goya captures the supernatural folklore of Spanish tradition, blending Romanticism with social commentary on superstition and the irrational forces haunting human consciousness.

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E. H. Gombrich
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