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The Prisoners is a series of three etchings by Francisco de Goya, depicting imprisoned men with indistinct faces, bound with leg irons in stress positions.The prints are not dated, but they are believed to have been made between 1810 and 1815, around the time Goya started his print series The Disasters of War.
Los Caprichos (The Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797–1798 and published as an album in 1799. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's satirizing Spanish society at the end of the 18th century, particularly the nobility and the clergy.
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.
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 Complete Etchings of Goya. New York: Crown Publishers, 1947. Licht, Fred. Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art. Universe Books, 1979. ISBN 0-87663-294-0; McDonald, Mark. Disasters of War: Etchings by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, from the unique album of proofs printed by the artist, in the collection of the British Museum . 2 ...
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.
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 Greasy Pole (1786-1787). The series of paintings for the alameda of the Dukes of Osuna comprises seven pictures painted by Francisco de Goya between 1786 and 1787. The country estate of the dukes and duchesses, who were the painter's mecenas and friends, was known as El Capricho, and was located on the outskirts of Madrid.