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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.
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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 ]
Pages in category "Paintings by Francisco Goya in the Museo del Prado" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Goya's painting of the massacre, which shows terrified civilians facing a firing squad, was intended to arouse anger and hatred on the part of Spanish viewers. Goya's is a highly romantic picture of a deeply emotional episode. [57] Pablo Picasso's Massacre in Korea (1951) was painted as a protest against the United States intervention in Korea ...
He speculates that Goya's son Javier may have created the paintings, and Javier's son Mariano passed them off as the work of Goya for financial gain. Junquera's theory was rejected by Goya scholar Nigel Glendinning , who published an academic study defending the paintings' authenticity and later held a lecture in Madrid restating his conviction.
The Third of May 1808, by Francisco Goya (edited by Papa Lima Whiskey 2) Rokeby Venus , by Diego Velázquez The Princess from the Land of Porcelain , by James McNeill Whistler (edited by Derrick Coetzee )
According to art historian José Luis Morales y Marín , this series was exhibited by Goya at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1799 as "six strange caprices". [19] The dukes likely borrowed the paintings from Goya, possibly to help promote Los caprichos , which were published in the same year.