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The Romantic Style

in Art and Music

ca. 1780–1880

Chapter

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“Success is impossible for me if I cannot write as

my heart dictates.”

Verdi

Figure 29.1 FRANCISCO GOYA, The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of

the Defenders of Madrid, 1814. Oil on canvas, 8 ft. 8 in. 10 ft. 4 in. Six years

after the French were ousted, the Spanish government commissioned Goya to

commemorate the massacre of May 8, 1808. Goya maintained that the work

warned against future acts of brutality.