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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Fire at Night

🖼 Fire at Night, 1793-94
Oil on tinplate
50 × 32 cm
Madrid, Spain

Flickering flames consume a nocturnal landscape, rendered in dramatic orange and shadow with loose, urgent brushwork. Goya captures catastrophe's chaos and human vulnerability, prefiguring Romantic intensity and his later obsession with darkness and destruction.

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E. H. Gombrich
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