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This is worse (Spanish: Esto es peor [1]) is an etching and wash drawing by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Completed between 1812 and 1815, though not published until 1863, it forms part of his The Disasters of War series, [2] which Goya created as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising and subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–1814.
6 x 5.9 Two children looking at a book [Wikidata] 1824 to 1825 Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence 5.2 x 5.3 Majo and maja sitting: 1824 to 1825 National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm 8.8 x 8.3 Man eating leeks: 1824 to 1825 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden: 6.2 x 5.6 Man spitting on a small dog: 1824 to 1825 Kupferstich-Kabinett ...
Partly because of the material shortages, the sizes and shapes of the plates vary somewhat, ranging from as small as 142 × 168 mm (5.6 × 6.6 in) to as large as 163 × 260 mm (6.4 × 10.2 in). [a 7] Goya completed 56 plates during the war against France, and these are often viewed as eye-witness accounts. A final batch—including plate 1 ...
The etchings were made over a tumultuous quarter-century between 1799 and 1823, when Goya was a mature artist, and the vast Spanish empire was coming apart at the seams. He started them in his ...
The Museo del Grabado de Goya (English: Goya Engraving Museum) is an art museum dedicated to the engravings made by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, in Fuendetodos, near Zaragoza, Spain. It is the only museum in the world dedicated entirely to Goya's artworks. It is located right next to the painter's birthplace, and it was inaugurated in 1989 ...
Initially, they were catalogued in 1828 by Goya's friend, Antonio Brugada. [6] The series is made up of 14 paintings: Atropos (The Fates) , Two Old Men , Two Old Ones Eating Soup , Fight with Cudgels , Witches' Sabbath , Men Reading , Judith and Holofernes , A Pilgrimage to San Isidro , Man Mocked by Two Women , Pilgrimage to the Fountain of ...
Four 2023 gifts, including a Goya portrait and a David Hockney landscape, expand the Huntington's paintings collection. The Huntington was gifted four major paintings this year. They fit like a glove
Goya's The Dog (1819–1823). Goya's use of empty space has been described as an indication of how his work, of all the Old Masters, is closest to the spirit of Modernism.He was to use areas of empty space for dramatic and evocative effect again in his Black Paintings, notably in The Dog and The Great He-Goat. [6]