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The Inquisition Tribunal
The Inquisition Tribunal, also known as The Court of the Inquisition or The Inquisition Scene ("Spanish": "Escena de Inquisición"), is an 18x29 inch oil-on-panel painting produced by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya between 1812 and 1819. The painting belongs to a series which also includes "The Bullfight", "The Madhouse" and "A Procession of Flagellants", all reflecting customs which liberals (of whom Goya was then one) objected to and wished were abandoned,
of the Inquisition tribunal created at Pamiers by Jacques Fournier in 1318, for the extirpation of the remnants of Albigensianism in the Foix region. This document is most important for the history of the Inquisition, representing as it does, and perhaps in this instance only, that particular tribunal in which the inquisitor and the diocesan bishop had almost equal responsibility, as decreed in 1312 by the Council of Vienne. In this new regime the traditional procedure of the Inquisition was made milder by temporizing with the accused who persisted in error, by