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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Injured Mason

🖼 The Injured Mason, 1786-87
Oil on canvas
268 × 110 cm
Madrid, Spain

Dramatic light isolates a bloodied mason collapsed against stone, his body contorted in pain while companions gesture helplessly around him. Goya captures human suffering with unflinching realism, rejecting idealizing traditions to expose the brutal vulnerability of working-class life in Spain.

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