"Disasters of War"
Spanish Insurgents Successfully Employ Terrorism Against Napoleonic Domination.
Etchings
By: Francisco José Goya y Lucientes
Date: Created 1810; first published 1863.
Source: Etchings entitled Fatales consequencias de la sangrieta Guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y Otros Caprichos Enfáticos" (Fatal Consequences of the Bloody War in Spain with Bonaparte. And Other Caprices). San Fernando: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 1863. The series became popularly known as Disasters of War.
About the Author: Francisco José Goya y Lucientes was born in the village of Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, Spain, on March 30, 1746. He began his career as an artist in the 1770s when he completed a series of frescoes for the Royal Academy, created designs...
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