"Despite its nightmare imagery, thyis is a radiantly beautiful painting. It is infused with golden tones, interspersed with blue-silver, and punctuated with two isolated areas of red. The massive rock appears hazy and insubstantiated beside the solid mass of the two figures flying by. It is not clear whether the two soldiers are shooting at them or at the distant horsemen." Patricia Wright , from her book Goya: Eyewitness Art, published by Dorling Kindersley 1993, page 52.