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Portrait of Goya by Vicente López Portaña, c. 1826. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was a Spanish artist, now viewed as one of the leaders of the artistic movement Romanticism. He produced around 700 paintings, 280 prints, and several thousand drawings.
The Goya (Goyesca) period, which includes the piano suite Goyescas, the opera Goyescas, various Tonadillas for voice and piano, and other works. Granados was a significant influence on at least two other famous Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals. He was also the teacher of composer Rosa García Ascot.
Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, on 30 March 1746 to José Benito de Goya y Franque and Gracia de Lucientes y Salvador. The family had moved that year from the city of Zaragoza , but there is no record of why; likely, José was commissioned to work there. [ 4 ]
The opera Goyescas was based on themes from the famous piano suite of the same name which appeared in 1911. Granados was inspired to write the piano suite by the paintings of Francisco Goya. The composer wrote, "I am enamored with the psychology of Goya, with his palette, with him, with his muse the Duchess of Alba, with his quarrels with his ...
The series was intended by Goya as a commercial venture but this was unsuccessful, partly because of Goya's expressive use of the form was radically different from the tidy appearance of most lithographs of the time. [2] A sense of Goya's working methods can be gained from Goya's companion and assistant in Bordeaux Antonio Brugada
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The numerous works by Francisco Goya, the single most extensively represented artist, as well as by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez, are some of the highlights of the collection. Velázquez and his keen eye and sensibility were also responsible for bringing much of the museum's fine collection of ...
Los disparates (The Follies), also known as Proverbios or Sueños , is a series of prints in etching and aquatint, with retouching in drypoint and engraving, created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya between 1815 and 1823.