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The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.
Goya's early career as a painter in the court of Charles III is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and tapestry cartoons in a Rococo style. Continuing to produce official portraits and paintings for the courts of Charles IV and Ferdinand VII , Goya's middle period is also notable for print series that satirize the human condition ...
The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya. New York 1971. Glendinning, Nigel. Goya and his Critics. New Haven 1977. Glendinning, Nigel. "The Strange Translation of Goya's Black Paintings". The Burlington Magazine, Volume 117, No. 868, 1975; Hagen, Rose-Marie & Hagen, Rainer. Francisco Goya, 1746–1828. London: Taschen, 1999. ISBN 978-3-8228 ...
Rococo is the style of all Goya's cartoons except for The Snowstorm, The Injured Mason, Poor People ar the Fountain and their respective sketches. The painter used a palette of warm tones, reinforced by touches of impasto, [50] a style that gave Goya the possibility of creating his own pyramidal scheme. Thus, he placed the main characters in ...
Photo of the wall of the old house of Goya, done by J. Laurent in 1874. A Pilgrimage to San Isidro (Spanish: La romería de San Isidro) is one of the Black Paintings painted by Francisco de Goya between 1819–23 on the interior walls of the house known as Quinta del Sordo ("The House of the Deaf Man") that he purchased in 1819.
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga is a large full-length portrait in oil painted in 1787–88 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. [1] It depicts a boy three or four years of age, standing in red clothes, with birds and cats. It is also known as Goya's "Red Boy". [2]
The Dog is one of Goya's Black Paintings, which he painted directly onto the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823 when he was in his mid-70s, living alone and suffering from acute mental and physical distress. He did not intend the paintings for public exhibition, and they were not removed from the house until 50 years after Goya ...
The Boar Hunt (Spanish: La caza del jabalí) is a painting of 1775 by Francisco Goya and the earliest surviving tapestry cartoon by the artist. It depicts men with dogs and boar spears killing a boar.