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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 ...
In 1819, Goya purchased a house named Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man) on the banks of the Manzanares near Madrid. It was a small two-story house which was named after a previous occupant who had been deaf, [1] though Goya also happened to be functionally deaf, as a result of an illness he had contracted (probably lead poisoning) in 1792.
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 ]
Goya and Ramón Bayeu were asked a total of 6 paintings as the old decorations did not fit the size of the restored building. [ 3 ] The artwork depicts a miraculous healing by cistercian saint Bernard of Clairvaux at Milan, allegedly performed after blessing bread and water given in charity to the needy.
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.
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.
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. [18] 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.