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Escena de Inquisición Framed Print
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18x11 inches
The painting depicts an auto-da-fé (Spanish, 'act of faith') by a tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition, being held inside a church. The four accused people are wearing tall, pointed coroza (a three-foot tall pointed dunce cap) on their heads and clad in sambenitos describing their offences. Ringed around the accused are the clerics and Inquisitors and farther back a sea of invited guests fills the church interior, witnessing the drama. Every figure in the foreground is in the light, individualised and well-characterised, whereas the background is occupied by an anonymous mass of people shut in by darkness and a claustrophobic Gothic architecture |
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Escena de Inquisición Framed Print
Framed with Mat •
18x11 inches
The painting depicts an auto-da-fé (Spanish, 'act of faith') by a tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition, being held inside a church. The four accused people are wearing tall, pointed coroza (a three-foot tall pointed dunce cap) on their heads and clad in sambenitos describing their offences. Ringed around the accused are the clerics and Inquisitors and farther back a sea of invited guests fills the church interior, witnessing the drama. Every figure in the foreground is in the light, individualised and well-characterised, whereas the background is occupied by an anonymous mass of people shut in by darkness and a claustrophobic Gothic architecture
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.