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Detail from Goya’s “Estragos de la guerra” (Ravages of War), etching number 30 from “Los desastres de la guerra” (The Disasters of War). Some experts believe that this is the first depiction by an artist of the civilian victims of a wartime bombing. See Ira Katznelson on "Evil & Politics." Image Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Detail from Goya’s “Estragos de la guerra” (Ravages of War), etching number 30 from “Los desastres de la guerra” (The Disasters of War). Some experts believe that this is the first depiction by an artist of the civilian victims of a wartime bombing. See Ira Katznelson on "Evil & Politics." Image Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.