![]() ![]() Goya's paintings have been seen as a protest against those who upheld and enforced the values of the Spanish Inquisition, which had been active in Witch hunting during the seventeenth-century Basque witch trials. ![]() Goya used the imagery of covens of witches in a number of works, most notably in one of his Black Paintings, Witches' Sabbath, or The Great He-Goat. In the middle high-ground, a number of bats can be seen flying overhead, their flocking motion echoing the curve of the crescent moon. The goat extends his left rather than right hoof toward the child, while the quarter moon faces out of the canvas at the top left corner. Typical of the imagery of witchcraft, many of the symbols used are inverted. Witches' Sabbath shows the Devil in the form of a garlanded goat, surrounded by a coven of disfigured, young and aging, witches in a moonlit barren landscape. Today it is held in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid. Witches' Sabbath (Spanish: El Aquelarre)is a 1798 oil on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. ![]()
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