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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: A Pilgrimage to San Isidro

🖼 A Pilgrimage to San Isidro, 1820-23
Oil on plaster mounted on canvas
140 × 438 cm
Madrid, Spain

Crowded masses sprawl across a sunlit meadow in loose, gestural brushwork, their bodies fragmented and energetic. Goya captures Madrid's popular festival culture with unprecedented informality, challenging academic tradition and presaging modern painting's embrace of spontaneity and ordinary life.

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E. H. Gombrich
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