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__NOTOC__ ''Witches' Sabbath'' ((スペイン語:Aquelarre))〔''(Aquelarre )'' in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.〕 is a 1798 oil on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Today it is held in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid. It was purchased in 1798 along with five other paintings related to witchcraft by the Duke and Duchess of Osuna.〔These six paintings were ''Witches' Flight'', ''The Spell'', ''Witches' Sabbath'', ''The Witches' Kitchen'', ''The Devil's Lamp'', and ''The Stone Guest''. ((【引用サイトリンク】title=Sotheby's to sell original receipt for Goya painting in Danny Boyle's art heist movie Trance ))〕 The acquisition of the witchcraft paintings is attributed to the duchess rather than her husband, but it is not known whether they were commissioned or bought after completion.〔Grange, 63〕 In the twentieth century the painting was purchased by the financier José Lázaro Galdiano and donated to the Spanish state on his death. ==Description== ''Witches' Sabbath'' shows the devil in the form of a garlanded goat, surrounded by a coven of disfigured, young and aging witches in a moonlit barren landscape. The goat possesses large horns and is crowned by a wreath of oak leaves. An old witch holds an infant in her hands. The devil seems to be acting as priest at an initiation ceremony for the child, though popular superstition at the time believed the devil often fed on children and human fetuses. The skeletons of two infants can be seen; one discarded to the left, the other held by a crone in the centre foreground. Typical of the imagery of witchcraft, many of the symbols used are inverted. The goat extends his left rather than right hoof towards the child, while the quarter moon faces out of the canvas at the top left corner.〔Boime, 261〕〔Hughes, 153〕 In the middle high-ground, a number of bats can be seen flying overhead, their flocking motion echoing the curve of the crescent moon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Witches' Sabbath (Goya, 1798)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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