The Disasters of War small clay figures

small clay figures

The edition from which these drawings were taken now commands high prices on the rare book market

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There is no larger collection of ornament in print anywhere today

plus the ordinary finger-crossing

The Disasters of War small clay figuresThe strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine