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"title": "Goya, Gericault and Delacroix",
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"title": "Imagination in the Age of Reason",
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"did_you_know": "When Los Caprichos was first published in 1799, the series was sold in a perfumery and liquor shop in Madrid.",
"description": "In the print series Los Caprichos, which translates as \u201ccaprices\u201d or \u201cartistic fantasies,\u201d Francisco de Goya drew on his expansive imagination to comment on Spanish society. The artist\u2019s critiques are not always clear, and many of the prints are intentionally ambiguous. Here, three witches support a young woman taking flight. Caught in the wind, her dress and veil transform her into a human butterfly, perhaps reflecting views at the time that characterized women as flighty. However, both the association of butterflies with life\u2019s fragility and the presence of witches\u2014often used by the artist to symbolize immorality and sex work\u2014may instead invite a more sinister interpretation.",
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"citation": "\u201cGifts of the Print Club of Cleveland.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 2 (February 1960): 28\u201335.",
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"citation": "Kruse, Jillian. Imagination in the Age of Reason: Prints and drawings showcase imagination's power.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 65, no. 3 (2024): 6-7.",
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