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William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (1879 - 1969) was a painter, teacher, and writer, known for impressionist landscape paintings and book illustrations. He is also known for his research and writings on other painters, and was at one time considered "one of the greatest authorities on Goya
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William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather
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16 Mayıs 1879
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14 Mayıs 1969
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VICTIMS OF WARSanat
Slightly to the left of the center of the picture, the principal figure, that of a man who has been shot, is bound to a tall post. He wears a white shirt, blue trousers and sash, and white stockings. His eyes are covered with a handkerchief. At his feet to the right crouches a woman dressed in red and green; behind is a figure in white, the hands clasped before the face, as though in terror. To the right and left are bodies of dead men, secured to posts in the same manner as the central figure. The scene takes place at night. The sky is obscure; against it rises the smoke of bonfires. The foreground, littered with the debris of war, is of a rich brown color. Unsigned. On canvas — 0.70x0.54.
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SCENES OF MAY 3, 1808Sanat
This is a sketch for one of the most celebrated of the painter's pictures, Escenas del 3 de Mayo de 1808, included with its companion piece, Episodio de la Invasion Francesa en 1808 (Episode of the French Invasion of 1808) in the collection of the Museo del Prado at Madrid. These two pictures are Goya's greatest achievement as a historical painter, and rank among the most notable works of their order ever produced. They present a vivid pictorial record of the hideous scenes which the artist witnessed at the time of the French invasion of Spain during the Peninsula War. In the Escenas del 3 de Mayo de 1808, a group of Madrid citizens, huddled together in horror at their fate, are about to be executed by troops of Murat, who, standing in file with muskets at their shoulders, are ready to fire. Many of the condemned are upon their knees, some cover their faces with their hands to shut out the sight of the levelled guns; a man in the center of the group raises his arms as if in an abandonment of terror.
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