Still Life With Golden Bream By Francisco De Goya

Still Life with Golden Bream, by Francisco de Goya, is a painting painted 1808-1812. This painting expresses sympathy for uncorrupted innocents, a tyranical authority, and the imagination and intensity of feeling, all big points that Romanticism taught. It depicts a group of fish all piled upon each other, staring dead into the sky. While this painting was in the works, the peninsular War was going on. The conflict was between Napoleon and the Allied powers of Spain; in its wake, many suffered casualties, both soldiers and civilians. This painting subtly hints to these casualties, bodies piled on each other, staring lifeless into the beyond. The fishes eyes remain wide open, just as the eyes of the dead always watch their killers. The painting