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Large still life with lamp on the right
The dream of the wise
Pictorial map of Milan
Interior of a ruined church or temple with figures
The woman (The sphynx)
The world is mostly a madhouse
The sleep of reason produces monsters.
The wave
Opening of the Simplon. Milan International Exhibition 1906
Coria Pirelli
Società Anonima per la incandescenza a gas. Brevetto Aver
Strega liqueur by G. Alberti Benevento - Chiasso.
Barcelona City Hall - 3rd Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries
Victor Bicycles, Overman Wheel Co.
Who are the managers - Il Mondo, no. 4, January 26, 1979 (cover)
Albert Camus, The Plague, Paris, Gallimard 1991 (cover)
Exporting Capital - Il Mondo, n. 12, 21 March 1983 (cover)
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Pressured by the Tax Authorities - Il Mondo, issue 13, March 30, 1979 (cover)
The Lira in danger - the World, no. 14, April 4, 1983 (cover)

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco Goya

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Achille Bertarelli Print Collection

Achille Bertarelli Print Collection

Piazza Castello, Milan

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Table 43 of the series of 80 prints entitled Los Caprichos, Caprices, the work is a second state specimen, a late print with illegible writing. Behind the artist asleep on his work table, one can see a menacing crowd of nocturnal animals, owls, bats, a cat, and a lynx. Goya's Caprices, engraved after 1797 and published in volume in 1799, are enigmatic works, attributable to three dominant themes, a violent satire to denounce the vices of men and society, erotic motifs, and witchcraft, understood as a demonic tendency and primitive inspiration opposed to reason. According to some scholars, Goya uses an allegorical language to escape censorship. The choice for this composition of animals like the cat, a sign of lust and laziness, and the lynx, equipped with extremely sharp vision able to follow the light even through darkness, seems to confirm the hypothesis.
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Title: The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Author: Francisco Goya

Date: 18th century.

Technique: Etching and aquatint

Displayed in: Achille Bertarelli Print Collection

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