Satire, irony, criticism. With her prints, made mostly in the last phase of his life, already deaf, Goya bites the heels to the powers that be: Church and nobles are two of his targets. This is what have these jobs that can now be seen in the West Turret Palace Square in Lisbon. The exhibition is an initiative of the Millennium Goals, UNESCO.
One of the goals set in 2000 is to promote gender equality and empower women, topic already approached by the artist in the nineteenth century. Several pictures represent the scene of the young woman who marries a much older man because of a dowry that solves the family’s financial problems.
The vices of Spanish society of the early nineteenth century are also on the list the subjects covered by Goya. “All that is not appropriate and the interest of the people themselves,” says the head of the Millennium Goals, Francisco de la Fuente.
Aware of the discomfort that these etchings could cause one of the former is offered to own King Charles IV, who was the official painter. The reproductions were sold in the artist’s shop in Madrid.
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