Oil Painting "The Third of May 1808 The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid" from Francisco de Goya - Buy Hand Painted Oil Reproduction

The Third of May 1808 (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya now in the Museo del Prado Madrid. In the work Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon s armies during the occupation of 1808. Along with its companion piece of the same size The Second of May 1808 (or The Charge of the Mamelukes) it was commissioned by the provisional government of Spain at Goya s suggestion. The painting s content presentation and emotional force secure its status as a groundbreaking archetypal image of the horrors of war. Although it draws on many sources from both high and popular art The Third of May 1808 marks a clear break from convention. Diverging from the traditions of Christian art and traditional depictions of war it has no distinct precedent and is acknowledged as one of the first paintings of the modern era. According to the art historian Kenneth Clark The Third of May 1808 is the first great picture which can be called revolutionary in every sense of the word in style in subject and in intention .

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