Goya and the Darkness of Enlightenment
In 1799, Francisco Goya created an image that still feels unsettling more than two centuries later. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters was originally part of his satirical series Los Caprichos, a body of work criticizing superstition, corruption, and the failures of Spanish society. Yet this single print has endured because it feels larger, darker, and far more personal than political satire…

















