Overview of the Disasters of War Series by Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya's series of aquatint prints, The Disasters of War are hard to look at. Rather than focus on the bombastics of usual war art, he depicts the suffering of regular people - the starving, assaults, executions. He does not blame all of the suffering on the occupying forces, Goya controversially says in these paintings that the Spanish could be just as cruel as the French. Explore the phases of these etchings the even darker peroid of Goya's art that would soon follow.Dark Goya part 6 - a series about Francisco Goya's life and career leading up to Las Pinturas Negras, the Dark Paintings.