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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Asmodea

🖼 Asmodea, 1820-23
Oil on canvas
123 × 265 cm
Madrid, Spain

Grotesque figures tumble through murky space in this etching, rendered with sharp, chaotic linework and deep shadows. Goya's nightmarish vision of the demon Asmodea flying over Madrid critiques social corruption and human folly through grotesque satire and surreal symbolism.

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E. H. Gombrich
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