Plate 53 from 'Los Caprichos': What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!) 1799 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish This print has been variously interpreted as a satire on the empty rhetoric of many public speakers and as an attack on sensationalist preachers and their gullible audiences. A parrot perches on a pulpit surrounded by an audience of gaping figures, all with the tonsured heads of clergymen except for the listener at center, who wears a bicorne hat and a look of Plate 53 from 'Los Caprichos': What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!). Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucien
Plate 53 from 'Los Caprichos': What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!) 1799 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish This print has been variously interpreted as a satire on the empty rhetoric of many public speakers and as an attack on sensationalist preachers and their gullible audiences. A parrot perches on a pulpit surrounded by an audience of gaping figures, all with the tonsured heads of clergymen except for the listener at center, who wears a bicorne hat and a look of Plate 53 from 'Los Caprichos': What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!). Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux). 1799. Etching, burnished aquatint, burin. Prints
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