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A Fight With Cudgels - The American Scholar

Summary by The American Scholar
A spooky painting by Francisco Goya has haunted me for decades. Painted around 1820 on a wall of the artist’s house and later transferred to canvas, it depicts two men, standing deep in mud or perhaps quicksand, holding cudgels poised to strike each other. They are alone in a stark landscape. The lighting suggests the sun rising or dying. Neither man sees the surrounding hills, or the vast sky, or even the mud. There is a fierceness in the way t…
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The American Scholar broke the news in on Monday, June 2, 2025.
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