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Original fileThis etching from Goya's *Los Caprichos* series depicts a harrowing nocturnal struggle between a human figure and demonic entities. The scene is defined by extreme contrasts between the dark, murky surroundings and the pale, distressed flesh of the central human figure as he is forced into the abyss.
The work explores the descent of human reason into the chaotic, irrational, and sub-human realms often associated with the 'monstrous' in early modern philosophical discourse on the psyche. It reflects a dark, critical engagement with the limitations of the Enlightenment project, paralleling contemporary interests in the irrationality of the human spirit.
62. Quien lo creyera!
Translation
62. Who would have believed it!
Francisco Goya
The artist's broader *Caprichos* series functions as an allegorical critique of the survival of superstitions and irrationality in a supposedly enlightened age.
Object
Etching, burnished aquatint, burin
allegory
Digital Source
Unknown · Public domain
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