Word: 1800s
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...censor-ridden Spain of the early 1800s, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes could say in paint what few dared say in words. But, for all his bitter satire and savage realism, Goya was no reforming idealist. When Napoleon kicked out Goya's Bourbon patrons and set his own brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne, Goya quickly came to terms with the new regime, and took to painting Bonapartist officials, as he had previously painted Bourbon courtiers. When, a few years later, the Bourbons were restored. Goya changed his coat again. Roared Bourbon Ferdinand VII: "You deserve...