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The FAY JONES painting references this print:
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 "Volaverunt" was Number 61 in the original Caprichos series. The word "volaverunt" was a common one in Spain, derived from Latin, that was used to "express goodhumoredly the total loss of something". In response to the image it refers to, it creates quite a unusual print. Goya himself described the print: "The group of witches who serve as a pedestal to this stylish fool is more of an ornament than a need. There are heads so swollen with inflammable gas that they can fly without being helped by a balloon or by witches." The "stylish fool" as many have recognized is the Duchess of Alba. A female companion to Goya earlier in his life, she ends their relationship on a less than cordial note. Goya has focused on her image, therefore, in order to represent the idea of women as inconstant and fickle.9 In flight with a horde of witches under her, she seems oblivious to the desires or needs of others, and also perhaps even unaware of her own.” |
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