The composition of this print is divided into two halves, one brightly lit, the other dark. To make the point that the central female gure is caught between two worlds, Goya has given her two heads. Her arms raised in anguished despair, she rushes forward, one head facing a group of old women representing her future. Her other head is turned backwards, as if to take a parting glance at her youth, where she is pursued by a cavalier and chased by a raging fury as a symbol of tempestuous passion. (TD 2024, translation Büro LS Anderson, Berlin)
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