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The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo. Commonly known as The Third of May 1808.) [1] is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
The series was produced by independent TV production company Fulmar Television & Film, based in Cardiff. [1] The series producer, who also devised the concept of the programme, was Jeremy Bugler. [2] The series was well received by art and television critics. The Times' David Chater placed it at Number 30 in his paper's Top 50 TV shows of the ...
In 1873, Spanish novelist Antonio de Trueba published the purported reminiscences of Goya's gardener, Isidro, on the genesis of the series. de Trueba claims to have spoken to Isidro in 1836, when the gardener recalled accompanying Goya to the hill of Principe Pio to sketch the victims of the executions of 3 May 1808. [a 11] Goya scholars are ...
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.
In the foreground, a row of French soldiers, resembling those from Goya's 1814 The Third of May 1808, take aim at a group of people passing in the lower distance. This group is travelling with horses and wagons, and are perhaps refugees [3] fleeing from the earlier war with France, the victims of whom Goya detailed in his The Disasters of War.
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1 El Tres de Mayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado in Google Earth Toggle the table of contents Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Goya's The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid
Place of creation: Spain : Exhibition history: Europeana 280 ; References: A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: from the Renaissance to the Present Day, 86 ; The Most Famous Paintings of the World, 42