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In 1792, a sudden, devastating illness left me deaf, yet it sharpened my vision. Isolated from the chatter of courts and salons, I began drawing the grotesque truths no one dared name: the superstition gripping rural Spain, the brutality of the Inquisition, the hollow pageantry of monarchy. My Black Paintings weren’t meant for public walls, they were private screams on the plaster of my own house, painted directly onto the walls with no commission, no audience in mind. When Napoleon’s troops invaded and Ferdinand VII returned as a tyrant, I didn’t retreat into allegory, I documented the raw, unvarnished faces of executioners and victims in 'The Third of May 1808', inventing modern political imagery by treating massacre not as heroic tableau but as visceral, light-struck horror. I refused to flatter power, even when painting kings; instead, I exposed the tremor in a queen’s hand, the vacancy behind a minister’s stare. This wasn’t Romanticism as escapism, it was Romanticism as forensic witness.
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