At forty six, a mysterious illness left Goya completely deaf.

That silence created the greatest painter Spain ever produced.

Before it, he painted cheerful tapestries for the king.

After it, he painted war through the eyes of its victims, and the monsters that live inside the human mind.

He had failed the Royal Academy exam twice, too strange for the jury.

He ended his life in exile, still covering his own walls with nightmares.

The bridge between Velázquez and Picasso, or a lucky amateur who lived through a terrible age?

We settled it with a score.

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