Francisco Goya produced his famous series of etchings, 1799's 'Los Caprichos,' at a time when narrow-minded religious extremists and other authoritarians were striving to control politics on the one hand while on the other the rise of the Enlightenment represented society's attempt to shift to reasonable thinking. Sound familiar?
Los Caprichos (Review)
Taft Museum's Goya exhibit shows the artist's darkly satirical side as social commentator
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