Goyas Skull

Bordeaux France 1828 Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery Nobody not even his only living son Javier claims his body In 1888 after years of paperwork the Spanish consul Pereyra finally obtains permission to exhume Goyas remains with the purpose to bury them in Spain When the crypt is opened the gravediggers make a discovery as macabre as it is stunning