The goat in Goya's Witches' Sabbaths

Author

Posèq, Avigdor W. G.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Source : notes in the history of art. 1999, Num. 4, Vol. 18, 30-39, 4 ill., 1 plan

ISSN

0737-4453

Abstract (en)

Summarizes previous interpretations of Goya's Witches' Sabbath (1820-1823; Madrid, Prado), then presents a visual source for the image (a goat-formed Molech illustration in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus) and speculates on the painting's relation to other of the Black Paintings in the ground-floor salon of the Quinta del Sordo, which are here seen as linked by their concern with moral depravity and corruption.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Spain
• Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de, 1746-1828
• Painting
• Spain
• 1800-1900
• Witches' Sabbath
• Museo Nacional del Prado||Madrid (ESP)
• Sources
• Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
• Oedipus aegyptiacus
• Iconography
• Goats
• Black Paintings
• Quinta del Sordo||Madrid (ESP)
• Witches
• Evil

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Espagne
• Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de, 1746-1828
• Peinture
• Espagne
• 1800-1900
• Sabbat des sorcières
• Museo Nacional del Prado||Madrid (ESP)
• Sources
• Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
• Oedipus aegyptiacus
• Iconographie
• Chèvre
• Peintures noires
• Quinta del Sordo||Madrid (ESP)
• Sorcières
• Mal, Le

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00212536

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