While this work showed Spanish civilians in a moment of victory, The Third of May 1808 presented the French ... and the soon-to-be shot figure with his arms outstretched all contribute to the ...

Hundreds of captured rebels were summarily shot by the French at the military barracks of ... 35 years after Goya’s death. The Third of May 1808 predates Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa by ...