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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Snowstorm

🖼 The Snowstorm, 1786-87
Oil on canvas
275 × 293 cm
Madrid, Spain

Swirling snow engulfs two figures and their donkey in a turbulent landscape rendered with loose, expressionistic brushwork. Goya captures nature's raw violence and human vulnerability, abandoning decorative convention for psychological intensity that prefigures Romantic art.

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