Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; Goya; alegoría; primavera; frutos; Siglo XVIII; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:22:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; Goya; alegoría; primavera; frutos; Siglo XVIII; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Agriculture https://historylab.es/agriculture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=agriculture Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-agricultura/ Tondo circular with the allegory of agriculture by Goya

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]]> This tondo, painted by Goya at the beginning of the 19th century, formed part of the decoration of the grand monumental staircase of Godoy’s palace. Along with three other compositions in a circular format, the one of Science (lost) expressed the ideals of the Enlightenment, as well as the ideas of progress of the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country that Godoy favoured. The iconography used by Goya is the traditional one of Agriculture: represented by the goddess Ceres crowned with ears of corn as a symbol of fertility. A later overpainting decoratively covered the goddess’s bare, abundant chest, who is seated in a landscape with two hoes and a scythe at her feet as specific peasant implements. In her left hand she holds a bunch of grapes and ears of corn, and in her right a pomegranate, while a kneeling peasant offers her a basket of flowers and fruit under the celestial signs of Leo, Libra and Scorpio (corresponding to the richest months of the harvest: summer and autumn).

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