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Yard with Lunatics (Spanish: Corral de locos) is a small oil-on-tinplate painting completed by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya between 1793 and 1794. Goya said that the painting was informed by scenes of institutions he had witnessed as a youth in Zaragoza. [1] It was painted around the time when Goya’s deafness and mental illness were ...
Los Caprichos lack an organized and coherent structure, but they have important thematic nuclei. The most prevalent themes are: the superstition around witches, which predominates after Capricho No. 43 and that serves to express ideas about evil in a tragicomic way; the life and behavior of friars; erotic satire relating to prostitution and the role of the matchmaker; and to a lesser extent ...
Assault of Thieves (Spanish: Asalto de ladrones) is an oil painting made by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya between 1793 and 1794. [1] It is part of a private collection owned by Juan Abelló. [2]
Goya, in gratitude to his friend Arrieta: for the compassion and care with which he saved his life during the acute and dangerous illness he suffered towards the end of the year 1819 in his seventy-third year. He painted it in 1820. [2] Goya may have expected to die, but under Arrieta's care, he was nursed back to health and lived another eight ...
1793 to 1794 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 94.8 x 74.8 General Ricardos, before his cannon (in Polish) 1793 to 1794 Private collection 225 x 110 Portrait of the Marquise de la Solana: c. 1793 to 1795 Louvre, Paris 181 x 122 Gallant colloquium: 1793 to 1797 Private collection 41 x 31 Gallant colloquium: 1793 to 1797 Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen ...
Prison Interior (Spanish: Interior de cárcel) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) between 1793 and 1794. The painting is bathed in a dim, cold light which gives it an appearance of purgatory.
Josep Gudiol dated the Witches series to between 1794 and 1795, which coincided with the period of the painter's recovery after a severe illness that left him completely deaf between 1792 and 1793. [17] Gradually returning to work, Goya focused on painting smaller works that required less physical effort.
Goya refers to themes from an earlier series of cabinet paintings painted in 1793, which included eight bullfight scenes. [ 7 ] Goya was a great lover of bullfighting, as evidenced by numerous compositions depicting bullfights executed in various techniques and appearing regularly throughout his career.