Cleveland Museum of Art
The Horrors of War: They Escape Through the Flames
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- c. 1810–20
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104433
From LinkedCulture
This etching captures pure panic, figures stumbling and lurching through billowing smoke, some carrying others, one lone person fleeing in the opposite direction. Goya made it around 1810 to 1820 as part of his "Disasters of War" series, 82 plates documenting the brutality he witnessed firsthand during the Peninsular War. He never published a single one in his lifetime, knowing the work was too dangerous to release. That silence makes each print a secret act of witness, kept hidden until the world was ready to see it.
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A group of people running through flames.
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