Duchess of Osuna and Goya’s Witches

Francisco Goya’s paintings of witchcraft are recognizable to many in and out of the art world. The images play upon well-known and accepted tropes of witchcraft; old crones bent over the lifeless bodies of young children, the worship of Satan in the form of a black goat, as well as the witches’ flight. They playContinue reading “Duchess of Osuna and Goya’s Witches”