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Fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte, and other emphatic caprices; invented, drawn, and engraved by the original painter, Don Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. This is how the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) labeled the proofs of the landmark set of etchings on view in the Theater Gallery. The artist began work on the series in his early sixties; thirty-five years after his death, it was first published by Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando, where it was aptly titled Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War).We are fortunate to have this extraordinary visual record of the times as seen through the eyes of the artist. Printed from Goya’s original copper plates in 1937 (the final printing of this historic work), the edition in the BAM collection is being shown in its entirety for the first time this fall. The images are not for the faint of heart. Gruesome and horrific, they attest boldly to the statement that war is hell.
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