{"id":2141,"date":"2017-10-31T19:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:56:13","slug":"goyas-caprices-and-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/goyas-caprices-and-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Goya&#8217;s Caprices and the Wicked Witch of the West (86)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Goya&#039;s Caprices and the Wicked Witch of the West (86)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NiVmsXIbYhM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2141 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/goyas-caprices-and-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-86\/800px-museo_del_prado_-_goya_-_caprichos_-_no-_43_-_el_sueno_de_la_razon_produce_monstruos\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Museo_del_Prado_-_Goya_-_Caprichos_-_No._43_-_El_sue\u00f1o_de_la_razon_produce_monstruos-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2142\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2142'>\n\t\t\t\tGoya, &#8220;The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/goyas-caprices-and-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-86\/800px-museo_del_prado_-_goya_-_caprichos_-_no-_71_-_si_amanece_nos_vamos\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Museo_del_Prado_-_Goya_-_Caprichos_-_No._71_-_Si_amanece_nos_Vamos-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2143\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2143'>\n\t\t\t\tGoya, &#8220;When Day Breaks We Will Be Off&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/goyas-caprices-and-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-86\/800px-museo_del_prado_-_goya_-_caprichos_-_no-_68_-_linda_maestra\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Museo_del_Prado_-_Goya_-_Caprichos_-_No._68_-_Linda_maestra-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2144\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2144'>\n\t\t\t\tGoya, &#8220;Pretty Teacher!&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Happy Halloween! In this very brief excerpt from my lecture &#8220;Things That Go Bump: A Visual Survey of Witches, Demons, and Ghosts,&#8221; we introduce Goya&#8217;s 1797\/99 published volume <em>The Caprices<\/em> (<em>Los Caprichos<\/em>). This tome of nightmares, witches, and devils satirizes human vice and intolerance of late 18th century Spanish society through the demons born of religion and power. We conclude with a brief glimpse at our modern icon of the Wicked Witch through the lens of art history and tradition. For greater depth, background, and context, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/59\/\">episode 59, A Witches&#8217; Sabbath.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For images of the featured works of art, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientartpodcast.org\/86\">http:\/\/ancientartpodcast.org\/86<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Work of Art:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Francisco Jos\u00e9 de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,&#8221; plate 43<br \/>\n&#8220;When Day Breaks We Will Be Off,&#8221; plate 71<br \/>\n&#8220;Pretty Teacher!&#8221; Plate 68<br \/>\nFrom <em>Los Caprichos<\/em>, 1797\/99<br \/>\n(Museo Nacional del Prado)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2146\" style=\"width: 87px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/goyas-caprices-and-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-86\/the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-as-pictured-in-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-by-l-frank-baum-illustration-by-william-wallace-denslow-from-the-original-publication-1900\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-Wicked-Witch-of-the-West-as-pictured-in-The-Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz-by-L.-Frank-Baum-illustration-by-William-Wallace-Denslow-from-the-original-publication-1900-87x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wicked Witch of the West, 1900\" width=\"87\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wicked Witch of the West, 1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,547],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}