This print revisits the earlier motif of Capricho no. 75, with a rope-bound man and woman, but here the figures are torturously conjoined at the back. Howling in anguish, the two protagonists have distorted animal-like faces. The man turns accusingly to the onlookers, gesticulating at the figure of a monk (?) on the left who sports a particularly vile grimace as he shouts at the couple. This harrowing scene gives expression to the battle between the sexes, with Goya alluding in particular to the Spanish Catholic Church’s rigid stance on the indissolubility of marriage. (TD 2024, translation Büro LS Anderson, Berlin)
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