Prison Interior

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Prison Interior. 42.9cm x 31.7cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Prison Interior (Spanish: Interior de cárcel) is an oil on canvas painting completed by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) between 1793-94. The painting is bathed in a dim, cold light which gives it look feeling of purgatory.

It is one of a number of works the artist made of scenes set in lunatic asylums, including Yard with Lunatics (1793–1794) and The Madhouse (1812-1813).[1] These works were painted at a time when mad-houses were 'holes in the social surface, small dumps into which the psychotic could be thrown without the smallest attempt to discover, classify, or treat the nature of their illness."[2] Goya often feared for his own sanity, a fact which underscores these works with feelings of dread.

Notes

  1. ↑ Hughes, 140
  2. ↑ Hughes, 139

Bibliography

Paintings
Tapestry cartoons
Black Paintings
(Pinturas negras)
(c. 1819–23)
Etchings
Los Caprichos (1797–1798)
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797–1798)
  • What a sacrifice! (1797–1798)
  • They say yes and give their hand to the first comer (1797–1798)
  • Que se la llevaron! (1797–1798)
  • You who cannot (1797–1798)
The Disasters of War
(Los desastres de la guerra)
La Tauromaquia (1815–1816)
Los Disparates (1815–1823)
  • A way of flying
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