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This is worse (Spanish: Esto es peor
The image is based on a scene which occurred in Chinchón in December 1808, at a time when Goya's brother was living there as parish priest. When two French soldiers were killed by Spanish rebels, the French retaliated by massacring local men. Goya shows the mutilated body of a rebel impaled on the branches of a tree at two points – through his anus and shoulder blade.[4] The victim's head is turned towards the picture's viewer, in a motif that echoes the title of another work in the Disasters series - One cannot look. His right arm has been chopped off above the elbow. In the background, French soldiers carry on with the massacre. The drawing contains sexual undertones in that the victim appears to have been raped.[5]
The figuration of the dead man is based in part on the
An 1863 print of This is Worse was purchased by the
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "This is worse (Esto es peor), Plate 37 of The Disasters of War series Archived 2011-09-14 at the Wayback Machine". National Galleries of Scotland. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ This image is plate 37 of 82.
- ^ Bareau, 45
- ^ a b Stoichita & Coderch, 95
- ^ Cottom, 59
- ^ See Goya's Italian notebook.
- ^ Cottom, 58
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-7141-0789-1
- Connell, Evan S. Francisco Goya: A Life. New York: Counterpoint, 2004. ISBN 1-58243-307-0
- Cottom, Daniel. "Unhuman culture". University of Pennsylvania, 2006. ISBN 0-8122-3956-3
- ISBN 0-394-58028-1
- Stoichita, Victor & Coderch, Anna Maria. Goya: the Last Carnival. London: Reakton books, 1999. ISBN 1-86189-045-1