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Stand before this canvas and feel what few royal portraits dare: the truth. Goya finished The Family of Charles IV in 1800, not a flattery but a reckoning. Fourteen royals blaze with silks and medals, yet there is no grandeur — only something unbearably human.
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Room 32 · Level 1
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