Description
A frightened man bends towards a ram-shaped lamp, holding out a vessel as if keeping the flame alight could keep him alive. Goya concentrates the scene into black clothing, grey shadows and a small orange light. Strange images of donkeys deepen the appearance of sorcery behind him.
The Bewitched Man is also known as The Devil’s Lamp and A Scene from The Forcibly Bewitched. Painted in 1798, it draws on a comedy by Antonio de Zamora in which Don Claudio is persuaded that his life depends on a lamp. The original oil on canvas, now in the National Gallery in London, makes apparent supernatural terror part of a satire on gullibility and manipulation.
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