Indumentaria; siglo XVIII; sastre; Goya; grabado; vestiduras; Goya; sartorial; manufactura; siglo XIX; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:14:47 +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 Indumentaria; siglo XVIII; sastre; Goya; grabado; vestiduras; Goya; sartorial; manufactura; siglo XIX; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 What a tailor can https://historylab.es/what-a-tailor-can/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-a-tailor-can Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:57 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/lo-que-puede-un-sastre/ Engraving by Goya alluding to the social importance of tailors that went unnoticed

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]]> In this capriccio, Goya covers the trunk of a tree with clerical vestments, symbolising a preacher in one of his most common postures, with his arms wide open. His head is covered with a hood and before him kneels a woman and a mindless audience. Goya’s imagination expresses religious incredulity in this whimsy, and this time without trying to attenuate or disguise it with his usual skill. In this sense, the importance of the title shows how a tailor, through the patterns used to cut the dresses, manages, by disguising a tree trunk, to create the belief that it is a priest.

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