The Disasters of War

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artwork print series series of etchings

The Disasters of War is a harrowing series of etchings by Francisco Goya that graphically depicts the brutality and suffering caused by the Peninsular War in early 19th-century Spain.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artwork → print series → series of etchings →
artist	Francisco Goya →
completionDate	circa 1820 →
countryOfOrigin	Spain →
createdFor	not commissioned →
creator	Francisco Goya →
depicts	famine → political repression → suffering → violence → war atrocities →
firstPublisher	Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando →
genre	political art → war art →
hasPart	Against the common good → And there is no remedy → Famine → I saw this → One can’t look → Rabble → There is no one to help them → This is worse → Truth has died → What courage! →
hasSeriesSubdivision	famine plates → war plates → “caprichos enfáticos” plates →
inception	1810 → 1810s →
influenced	Pablo Picasso’s Guernica → modern anti-war art →
languageOfWork	Spanish →
locationOfImpression	Art Institute of Chicago → British Museum → Metropolitan Museum of Art → Museum of Fine Arts, Boston → Prado Museum →
locationOfManuscript	Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando →
mainSubject	Peninsular War →
movement	Romanticism →
notableFor	graphic depiction of war atrocities →
numberOfWorks	82 →
placeOfDepiction	Spain →
printingProcess	intaglio →
publicationDate	1863 →
publicationStatusDuringArtistLife	unpublished →
setInPeriod	Napoleonic Wars → Peninsular War →
technique	aquatint → burin → drypoint → etching →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Francisco Goya →	notableWork