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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Witches Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)

🖼 Witches Sabbath (The Great He-Goat), 1820-23
Oil on plaster mounted on canvas
140 × 438 cm
Madrid, Spain

Writhing figures emerge from murky shadow, their bodies twisted in feverish adoration around a demonic goat-headed figure. Goya's nightmarish vision captures Enlightenment anxieties about superstition and irrationality, transforming folklore into psychological terror that questions reason itself.

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