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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Inquisition Tribunal

Shadowy figures huddle before an elevated tribunal, their forms dissolving into darkness rendered in murky ochres and blacks. Goya's composition exposes the Inquisition's psychological terror, transforming institutional brutality into visceral emotional experience through chiaroscuro and compositional claustrophobia.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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