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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Burial of the Sardine

🖼 The Burial of the Sardine, 1812-14
Oil on panel
82.5 × 59 cm
Madrid, Spain

Raucous carnival chaos erupts as masked revelers surround a giant sardine coffin in grotesque procession. Goya transforms a Spanish carnival tradition into biting social satire, exposing mob mentality and the darker impulses lurking beneath festive excess.

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