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Chapter 1 of 7
There are paintings that stop you cold. Around 1820, Goya painted this onto the plaster wall of his country house outside Madrid. He ate his meals beneath it.
Not a commission but a confession — one of fourteen Black Paintings born of war, plague, and shattered senses.
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Madrid
Room 67 · Level 0
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