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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Goya Drawings: Only My Will of Strength Remains

Nov 20, 2019 – Feb 16, 2020
Calle de Ruiz de Alarcon, 23, 28014 Madrid, Spain

“I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not,” said Francisco de Goya. “There is only light and shadow.” In an exhibition of unprecedented breadth, the Museo del Prado features 300 of Goya’s drawings, pulled from collections world-wide, as well its own. The exhibition covers all the periods of Goya’s life, and the work is arranged geographically and thematically. Among the master’s leitmotifs are dreams, violence, witches, satire, follies, bulls and bullfighting, and the crowd. —E.C.

A 1796 self portrait by Francisco de Goya. Courtesy of Museo del Prado, Madrid.