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Meaning of la maja



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It could be the trolling of making pronominal the inflection verbs/maja, or of adding an article to maja ("end of the mortar"), or better to the feminine of majo ("beautiful and graceful young man"); but precisely to the latter we can find some meaning. It turns out that the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya painted in the late eighteenth century two versions of a female portrait known then as "La Gitana", both in the same pose, but in one the model is dressed and in the other, naked. The grace (they say) was that the owner had the portraits superimposed on a room, and with a mechanism raised the first version to exhibit the woman without clothes of the second. Already at the beginning of the nineteenth century the Tribunal of the Inquisition hijacked the works for obscene, and in their records they appear for the first time named as "maja", which is the way in which each one is known today: "La Maja desnuda" and "La Maja vestida".

  



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The Maja-is the asteroid discovered by the astronomerH. Q. Tuttle on April 9, 1861-

  










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