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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: A Procession of Flagellants

🖼 A Procession of Flagellants, 1812-14
Oil on panel
46 × 73 cm
Madrid, Spain

Shadowy figures process through darkness, their bodies contorted in religious fervor, rendered in murky ochres and blacks. Goya captures the psychological intensity of Spain's penitential practices, transforming ritual into visceral human suffering and spiritual obsession.

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E. H. Gombrich
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