Goya's Ghost

Part I:
•The setting of this movie is Spain at the end of the 18th century (1790’s) during the reign of Charles IV, who was a cousin-german of France’s world-beater Louis XVI
•At the beginning of the film, a group of Catholic priests are loo fagot over several(prenominal) art sketches drawn by the court painter, Francisco Goya. The sketches mock the Catholic Church officials and show them as demons, torturing and forcing their beliefs on destitute victims. The Spanish search is alive and thriving during this time in history and the usual victims are non-Christians and non-believers.
•The priests are otiose to punish Goya directly because the royal family has commissi integrityd Goya, a eclipse painter of that time period, to paint portraits of the royal family, so the priests go down to provoke back at Goya by falsely incriminate one of Goya’s object lessons as practicing Judaism.
•The model, Inez, is the daughter of a wealthy merchant and one evening she is spotted take in at a tavern and she is observed refusing pork (a Jewish custom). The priests have soldiers arrest her and she is tortured by the “Spanish headspring” method, which is to lift a person up by their blazonry which are tied behind their backs.



The torture technique is one of the methods of confession used by the church during the Spanish Inquisition when the Catholic Church tortured and killed non-Christians and non-believers.
•The father of the model goes to the painter, Goya, and pleads with him to use his influence at court to have the king release the girl, Inez. Goya, who at the time was painting a portrait of the ugly queen, Marie Amelia, pleads for the girl’s release but King Charles IV refuses to interfere in church activities. It is apparent in this part of the film that King Charles IV only likes to go hunting and he lets his queen make most of the decisions. During this particular proposition scene, Charles IV learns of the beheading of his cousin, King Louis XVI, and it is obvious that...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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