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 ...

Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin. Until January 21 cbl.ie; Aidan Dunne. Aidan Dunne is a visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times.

Goya’s unflinching cycle of drawings, The Disasters of War, are the most searing works of art ever to deal with conflict, argues Alastair Sooke.

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.

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 ...

Admittedly, Goya's trenchant critique was deserved: corruption did infect the religious orders and hierarchy of the 19th-century Spanish church, the Inquisition was violent and bigoted and there ...

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 (1746-1828) was scathing about them. He didn’t care whether they were Spanish or French, soldiers, laborers or monks. He had lived through the Inquisition and the Peninsular War.