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This is What You Were Born For, plate twelve from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y LucientesLinkedCulture matchlcp-996a1e74ef53
- Date
- 1810/12, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, lavis, drypoint and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 124855
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In Francisco de Goya’s series The Disasters of War , 10 of the 80 etchings are devoted to piles of dead bodies, aggressively cementing this subject’s narrative importance. Goya seems to have been engrossed in the artistic possibilities that these groupings allowed. The bodies are portrayed in varied compositions and techniques—some with aquatint, some with traditional etching. Some only depict the dead (alternately naked or clothed), and others, like This Is What You Were Born For , mingle the dead and barely alive.
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. C. Cebrian
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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