 It has been said that the painting is "essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century".Goya may have been inspired by Peter Paul Rubens' 1636 picture of the same name.Rubens' painting, also held at the Museo del Prado, is a brighter, more conventional treatment of the myth