The Dance Of Death Goes On

Detail from Francisco Goya's series 'The Disasters of War' which I stumbled across the other day after many years. The title of it is 'Las Camas De La Muerte'. The Deathbeds. The scene he painted is from the war of the Spanish nationalists against France and Napoleon around 1810. It could be a scene from more recent times in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya or................If you study it closely you can almost hear in the background the echoes of old empires crumbling.