The definitive study on Goya's Quinta. A farmer's house on the outskirts of Madrid, the Quinta was bought by Goya in 1819. In 1820 he painted its walls with the most sombre motifs. Shortly after, the place fell into oblivion, haunted by misadventures, giving rise to all kinds of interpretations of the so-called Black Paintings. In this enlarged critical edition, the author weighs up the divergent theories that have recently arisen about the rooms and paintings of the Fifth , to, almost definitively, deduce, with new graphic tests, their real distribution.