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The subject of Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808” (pictured), also known as “The Executions”, is the reprisals exacted by Napoleon’s troops after a rebellion by the populace of ...
Once a beloved court painter, Goya in his later years turned his hand to anti-war works. Francisco Goya, Self-Portrait (1796–97). Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), known simply as Goya, was driven by a fierce, almost childlike curiosity about human nature and went through several artistic stages.
The social and political turmoil of today resonates in a mammoth, extraordinary show of Francisco de Goya's celebrated etchings at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
Francisco Goya, Mucho hay que chupar (There is Plenty to Suck), Plate 45 from Los Caprichos, Etching and aquatint, 1799 After Napoleon’s armies marched into the Peninsular War of 1807 and the forces ...
A good time for thinking about Francisco Goya is while the world stumbles. Crisis becomes him. “Goya: A Portrait of the Artist” (Princeton), a biography by the American art historian Janis A ...
It’s called “The Disasters of War: A Sequel,” and it does not deserve to be quoted from. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, 1st edition, Plate 39 “Grande hazaña! Con Muertos!” (“An heroic ...