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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Dance of the Majos at the Banks of Manzanares

🖼 Dance of the Majos at the Banks of Manzanares, 1777
Oil on canvas
272 × 295 cm
Madrid, Spain

Vibrant figures dance in theatrical abandon along the riverbank, rendered in luminous brushwork that captures movement and light. Goya celebrates Madrid's common people—the majos—with unprecedented dignity, marking a shift from court hierarchy to populist subject matter in Spanish art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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