Here is a comparison. The notion of beauty can sensibly be used with the Veronese - and not just because of the subject. He offers us an image of beauty and nobility to wonder at and admire. Goya is plumbing the depths of some nether world. He is not remotely interested in beauty or evoking admiration. Applying the notion of beauty indiscriminately to paintings as different as these two simply empties the idea of beauty of sense and substance.
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