From the article…The standard interpretation, such as there is one, is that Goya had become disillusioned with almost everything by the time he painted the Blac

From the article…The standard interpretation, such as there is one, is that Goya had become disillusioned with almost everything by the time he painted the Black Paintings. Maybe. But it has also been observed that Goya’s decent into darkness coincided with his decent into deafness. Suddenly remove from a man the ability to perceive speech, and life is in danger of looking like a pointless masked ball, a look that seemed to characterize his later work.