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However, in Goya's artist's proofs, many of the prints contain titles including "Disparates", by which the series is most commonly known today. [ 4 ] The academic edition of 1864 used a random sequence, as there was no way to establish the intended ordering of the series. [ 5 ]
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 ]
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 series was intended by Goya as a commercial venture but this was unsuccessful, partly because of Goya's expressive use of the form was radically different from the tidy appearance of most lithographs of the time. [2] A sense of Goya's working methods can be gained from Goya's companion and assistant in Bordeaux Antonio Brugada
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.
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Goya sought inspiration in typically Spanish motifs, despite having access to more popular works. [20] The painting depicts a scene from Act III of Zamora's comedy, which is a reinterpretation of The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest by Tirso de Molina , a retelling of the Don Juan legend.
Los Caprichos lack an organized and coherent structure, but they have important thematic nuclei. The most prevalent themes are: the superstition around witches, which predominates after Capricho No. 43 and that serves to express ideas about evil in a tragicomic way; the life and behavior of friars; erotic satire relating to prostitution and the role of the matchmaker; and to a lesser extent ...