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The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo. Commonly known as The Third of May 1808 .) [ 1 ] is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya , now in the Museo del Prado , Madrid.
File: El Tres de Mayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado thin black margin.jpg
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Wikipedia: Featured picture candidates/Goya's The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
Janis Tomlinson, an internationally recognized art historian and Goya scholar, recognizes that in plate No. 33, "[t]he eventually published title, identifies the bull fighter as Pepe Illo. A fighter who met end in the ring of Madrid in May 1801". [6] The name, Pepe, is a diminutive for the name Joseph.
The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid by Goya. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by YOYOKER ( talk • contribs ) 10:31, 15 April 2006 UTC. Oppose I dont really like photographs of pictures, I don't think thats really what a FP should be.
But the 1808-14 "Spanish War for Independence"--"a violent convulsion of anarchy, starvation, and slaughter--injected his art with a new psychological sensibility, one that probed deep into the foundations of culture and the human psyche, into the lightless cracks and fissures created when these foundations are shattered by war," by guerrilla ...