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Asmodea
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Also known as Fantastic Vision, Fantastic Vision (Asmodea) (from The Black Paintings)

Asmodea or Fantastic Vision (Spanish: Visión fantástica) are names given to a fresco painting likely completed between 1820 and 1823 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It shows two flying figures hovering over a landscape dominated by a large tabled mountain. Asmodea is one of Goya's 14 Black Paintings—his last major series—which, in mental and physical despair, he painted at the end of his life directly onto the walls of his house, the Quinta del Sordo, outside Madrid.

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Artwork.image_file
Vision fantástica o Asmodea (Goya).jpg
Artwork.image_upright
2
Artwork.title
Asmodea / Fantastic Vision
Artwork.other_language_1
Spanish
Artwork.other_title_1
Asmodea / Visión fantástica
Artwork.artist
Francisco Goya
Artwork.year
c. 1820–1823
Artwork.medium
Oil on gesso transferred to linen
Artwork.height_metric
127
Artwork.width_metric
263
Artwork.metric_unit
cm
Artwork.imperial_unit
in
Artwork.museum
Museo del Prado
Artwork.city
Madrid

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Vision fantástica o Asmodea (Goya).jpg
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127
Width
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inception
1819-01-01
Commons category
Asmodea (Goya)
inventory number
P000756
catalog code
1620
title
Vision fantástica
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Asmodea or Fantastic Vision (Spanish: Visión fantástica) are names given to a fresco painting likely completed between 1820 and 1823 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It shows two flying figures hovering over a landscape dominated by a large tabled mountain. Asmodea is one of Goya's 14 Black Paintings—his last major series—which, in mental and physical despair, he painted at the end of his life directly onto the walls of his house, the Quinta del Sordo, outside Madrid.

No written or oral record survives as to the series' intended meaning, and it is probable that they were never intended to be seen by those outside his then small immediate circle. Goya did not name any of the works in the series; the title of Asmodea was later given by his friend, the Spanish painter Antonio Brugada. The title is likely a feminine naming of the demon king Asmodeus from the Book of Tobias. However, according to López Vásquez first and Moffitt later, the title relates to the myth of Greek Titan Prometheus, in which the goddess Athena carries him to the Caucasus Mountains.

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