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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Dead Birds

🖼 Dead Birds, 1808-12
Oil on canvas
Madrid, Spain

Limp feathered forms sprawl across neutral ground, rendered in muted ochres and grays with loose, economical brushwork. Goya's stark study of mortality prefigures modern still life, transforming humble dead game into a meditation on decay and transience.

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E. H. Gombrich
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