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3 Rococo and Other Worlds Elias Canetti maintains Goya was a partisan The one who made the Maja Nude the Maja Clothed, and the Majas on a Balcony His Rococo world disappeared in Third of May in a dark Madrid alley He became oblivious that parasol carriers had adorned his canvas and his bed The source of light in his canvas is a floor lantern troops whose faces remain hidden discharge fire on unresisting civilians everyone resolves death in his own manner the white shirt has his chest thrust out in defiance Successive generations of painters shall revisit the theme The subject of his last oil the Milkmaid of Bordeaux would have been claimed by some revolution 4 In the passing it may be mentioned Goya sided against Napoleon with the people of Spain ...

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