Goya o el misterio de la lectura

Francisco de Goya experienced formidable social transformations up close. Among them, the revolutionary increase in the number of readers and available texts, a phenomenon that had a profound impact on the world of the artist and his vision of it. His work offers a sustained reflection on reading, an exercise not without mystery whose implications he explored in numerous oil paintings, prints and drawings. Reading is an ambiguous activity for them, which can lead to knowledge or ecstasy, personal fulfillment or self-destruction, holiness or perdition. At the same time, Goya uses reading to generate additional possibilities of interpretation of his own creations. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual and artistic keys to a fundamental aspect of his production.