The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

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aquatint artwork etching print

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is a famous etching and aquatint by Francisco Goya that allegorically depicts the dark, irrational forces unleashed when reason is abandoned.

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instanceOf aquatint →
artwork →
etching →
print →
allegoryOf irrationality →
superstition →
the dangers of abandoning reason →
artist Francisco Goya →
associatedWith Age of Enlightenment →
Spanish Inquisition criticism →
color monochrome →
countryOfOrigin Spain →
creationPeriod circa 1797–1799 →
creator Francisco Goya →
culturalSignificance emblem of the conflict between reason and unreason →
depicts bats →
lynx →
monstrous creatures →
owls →
sleeping man at a desk →
genre satirical print →
hasFormat bound in albums of Los Caprichos →
individual loose print impressions →
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iconography artist figure overwhelmed by monstrous visions →
inCollection various museum and library print collections worldwide →
influenced later Romantic and Symbolist imagery of nightmares →
inscriptionType caption below image →
languageOfInscription Spanish →
medium ink on paper →
movement Romanticism →
notableIn Spanish art history →
history of printmaking →
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surface form: El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
partOfSeries Los Caprichos →
publicationYear 1799 →
seriesNumber Capricho No. 43 →
technique aquatint →
burin →
drypoint →
etching →
theme Enlightenment and its limits →
critique of superstition →
dreams and nightmares →
human folly →
titleTranslation The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters self-link →

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