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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Pilgrimage to the Church of San Isidro

🖼 Pilgrimage to the Church of San Isidro, 1788
Oil on canvas
42 × 44 cm
Madrid, Spain

Dappled light and animated crowds fill a sun-drenched landscape as pilgrims converge on a distant church, rendered in loose brushwork. Goya captures Spanish popular culture with unprecedented naturalism, blending genre scene tradition with modernist spontaneity that influenced later Romantic painters.

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