Trigger warning: museum of banned art opens in Barcelona - The Times

The barbarity of the Spanish Inquisition was the subject of many paintings by Goya and so when it took exception to a collection of his works the painter feared a fierce reprisal.It was his Caprichos, a set of 80 prints bursting with caustic social commentary about poverty and the excesses of the aristocracy, created at the end of the 18th century, that finally stirred the Holy Office.An investigation was launched but the Aragonese painter thwarted it by donating the plates and all the available series to Charles IV in exchange for a royal pension for his son.An edition of Los Caprichos prints features in a new museum in Barcelona that claims to be the first in the world dedicated to artRelated articles