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Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11½, 46¢, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...
...seem to recall, however, that while "major" or "maior" is the comparative, "magnus" is the positive, as "opus magnus" and not "opus maius." Unless there be some trick reference here to Maia, the goddess or month...