Cleveland Museum of Art
The Horrors of War: What Madness!
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
Cleveland Museum of Art’s catalogue record
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Type of artwork
- Print
- Department
- Prints
Also in Cleveland Museum of Art’s record. The museum’s own label for these fields has not been confirmed yet, so each is named by its field in the museum’s data.
- creation_date
- 1810–20, published 1863
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From LinkedCulture
A masked figure in white robes crouches in chains, shackled hands reaching out, while grotesque faces leer from the shadows beside them. This is plate 68 from Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War, an etching and aquatint made in Spain between 1810 and 1820 and not published until 1863, more than three decades after his death. Goya kept these images hidden, and that secrecy is exactly what makes them so powerful. They are a court painter's private record of outrage, unfiltered and unsparing.
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A figure in a hooded cloak sits on the ground, surrounded by scattered objects.
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- Object ID
- 104461
- Object Type
- Print
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Type of artwork” · copied as is
- Creator
- Francisco de Goya
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creators(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · Artist-role creator's description with life dates removed.
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
- Culture
- Spain
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Culture” · copied as is
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Medium” · copied as is · Cleveland's 'technique' field holds materials.
- Department
- Prints
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Department” · copied as is
- Tags
- Latine and Hispanic Artists
- male
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
tags(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · combined from several museum fields - Cleveland Museum of Art field
artists_tags(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · combined from several museum fields
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Credit Line” · copied as is
- Date
- 1810–20, published 1863
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creation_date(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
- Begin Year
- 1810
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creation_date_earliest(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
- End Year
- 1863
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creation_date_latest(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
The museum’s own record has not been captured for this object yet, so the museum fields shown above are limited to values LinkedCulture stored unchanged.
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