The disasters of war
by Goya, Francisco, Hofer, Philip
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Goya's great series of etchings, The Disasters of War, came about as a consequence of the Spanish War of Independence. Between 1810 and 1823, the artist created a series of prints, such as this one, which reveals the devastating side of war--the agony, irony, and bitter pessimis…