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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.
Fantasy view with the Pantheon and other monuments of Ancient Rome, 1737, by Giovanni Paolo Panini. In painting, a capriccio (Italian pronunciation: [kaˈprittʃo], plural: capricci [kaˈprittʃi]; in older English works often anglicized as "caprice") is an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often ...
Capriccio (art) or caprice, in painting, an architectural fantasy; A Caprice, a c. 1894 painting by Aubrey Beardsley; Capriccio (music) or caprice, a piece of music usually free in form and of a lively character 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Paganini) Caprichos (The Caprices), a series of prints by Goya; Caprice, a 1917 novel by Ronald Firbank
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.
he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.
Apoux produced numerous series of erotic engravings and prints, including Pornographic Alphabet (c. 1880), Fantastic Reveries, and Etching Caprices (c. 1890). His work was published by the L. Joly publishing house (Quai Saint-Michel) [ 4 ] and the print merchant René Pincebourde (Rue de Verneuil) between 1880 and 1900.
Columnist David Murdock finds following an author's advice on 'Whim' have helped him enjoy both the 'unusual' and 'usual' even more.
The Whims of the Butterfly (also known as The Caprices of a Butterfly, or Les Caprices du Papillon) is a ballet in 1 act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem The Grasshopper Musician by Yakov Polonsky .