Costumbres populares; Madrid; majismo; Goya; diversión; juegos populares; juegos; jugar; pelele; jóvenes; siglo XVIII; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:21:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Costumbres populares; Madrid; majismo; Goya; diversión; juegos populares; juegos; jugar; pelele; jóvenes; siglo XVIII; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The wimp https://historylab.es/the-wimp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-wimp Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:49 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-pelele/ In one of his most emblematic works, Goya depicts four young girls holding a romper suit

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]]> Four young women dressed as majas are holding a romper suit in a leafy landscape with a river running through it and a stone building in the background. The game, practised during popular festivals and a rite of farewell to bachelorhood, here symbolises the power of women over men, a general theme of this group and repeated in Goya’s work, with examples in the series of engravings of the Caprichos and the Disparates.

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