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In the famous black paintings by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828), which closed the cycle of his masterful creation, the dog became the main ;symbol of the inevitability of the drama that threatens human destiny. From Aesop's fables and medieval bestiaries, to Bosch (1450-1516), to la Fontaine's fables (1621-1695), in literature and plastic arts, the animal, part of the ancestral and universal heritage of symbols, it is It is a figure of the unconscious, capable of translating its profound contents. In the engravings of Sérgio Portugal, if this ancient heritage of images and symbols is present underlying, what touches us is the realism of the figures, with an almost humanized expression and apparently devoid of meaning.