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Mia madre che lavora [My Mother Working] by Umberto Boccioni, 1907
![Mia madre che lavora [My Mother Working]](/images/uploads/347559f5-1417-4c5e-ac4a-086bb73edfc5-wikidata-Q77259179.jpg)
Apparently this is from before Boccioni signed onto Futurism in 1910 — a movement that made a point of rejecting quiet domestic scenes just like this one.
Erisava: Would this hang here if it weren't signed by someone famous?
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Periphery [Periferia] by Umberto Boccioni, 1908
![Periphery [Periferia]](/images/uploads/7b08b6d5-112e-423a-8e3f-3d93c44d6f27-wikidata-Q77007813.jpg)
This is from years before Boccioni co-signed the Futurist manifesto and started painting industry as speed and noise instead of smoke drifting over a quiet field.
Erisava: I don't think anyone would look twice at this if Boccioni hadn't gotten famous later.
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Hundred Guilder Print by Rembrandt, 1647
The name it goes by comes from money — the story is that a copy once changed hands for a sum that was outrageous for a print, and it stuck. It isn't one moment either: from what I've read he packed several separate things from the same chapter of the Bible into a single scene, so people are being healed, argued with and turned away all at once.
Erisava: You could look at this for an hour and still be finding people in it.
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya, 1797
These were sold as a set of eighty, in an ordinary shop rather than anywhere grand, and pulled off sale after a couple of weeks — the usual explanation is that he got nervous about the Inquisition. This one was meant to open the second half, and there's a note attributed to him saying the idea is that reason and imagination go wrong without each other. Whether that's the whole story, I couldn't tell you.
Erisava: Is this actually frightening to you, or has it just got old?
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Los caprichos: No hay quien nos desate by Francisco Goya
Most of what I could find reads this one as being about marriage — a knot you couldn't get out of in Spain at the time. It's plate 75 of the same set of eighty. The owl I can't explain, and nobody I read seemed sure either.
Erisava: Whoever looked at this and thought marriage was having a rough time of it.