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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Atropos (The Fates)

🖼 Atropos (The Fates), 1821-23
Oil on plaster mounted on canvas
123 × 266 cm
Madrid, Spain

Shadowy figures dance macabrely as Atropos, the eldest Fate, cuts life's thread with her shears. Goya's haunting Black Painting embodies Spanish Romanticism's preoccupation with mortality, fate, and humanity's powerlessness against inevitable doom.

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