Cleveland Museum of Art
The Horrors of War: This is What You Were Born For
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- c. 1810–20
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104403
From LinkedCulture
A figure stands knife in hand over a heap of fallen bodies, bent forward as if finishing what war started. This etching by Francisco de Goya, made around 1810 to 1820, carries the caption "Para eso habeis nacido," meaning "This is what you were born for," spoken with brutal irony over the dead. Goya made these plates privately and never saw them published in his lifetime, which makes the series one of the most haunting acts of witness in the history of printmaking.
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A man bends over a group of dead bodies on the ground.
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