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Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[1] His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters.[2] Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.[3]

Francisco de Goya
Portrait of Goya by Vicente López Portaña, c. 1826. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Born
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

(1746-03-30)30 March 1746
Died16 April 1828(1828-04-16) (aged 82)
Known forPainting, drawing
Notable workList of paintings and engravings
MovementRomanticism

Goya was born to a middle-class family in 1746, in Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773. Their life was characterised by a series of pregnancies and miscarriages, and only one child, a son, survived into adulthood. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo-style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.

He was guarded, and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He had a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799, Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara (Prime Court Painter), the highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1800–01 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family, also influenced by Velázquez.

In 1807, Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not speak his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health.

His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain, he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases.

Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and with failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Famously, the skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head."[4]

Early years (1746–1771)

 
Birth house of Francisco Goya, Fuendetodos, Zaragoza

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 why; likely José was commissioned to work there.[5] They were lower middle-class. José was the son of a notary and of Basque origin, his ancestors being from Zerain,[6] earning his living as a gilder, specialising in religious and decorative craftwork.[7] He oversaw the gilding and most of the ornamentation during the rebuilding of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (Santa Maria del Pilar), the principal cathedral of Zaragoza. Francisco was their fourth child, following his sister Rita (b. 1737), brother Tomás (b. 1739) (who was to follow in his father's trade) and second sister Jacinta (b. 1743). There were two younger sons, Mariano (b. 1750) and Camilo (b. 1753).[8]

His mother's family had pretensions of nobility and the house, a modest brick cottage, was owned by her family and, perhaps fancifully, bore their crest.[7] About 1749 José and Gracia bought a home in Zaragoza and were able to return to live in the city. Although there are no surviving records, it is thought that Goya may have attended the Escuelas Pías de San Antón, which offered free schooling. His education seems to have been adequate but not enlightening; he had reading, writing and numeracy, and some knowledge of the classics. According to Robert Hughes the artist "seems to have taken no more interest than a carpenter in philosophical or theological matters, and his views on painting ... were very down to earth: Goya was no theoretician."[9] At school he formed a close and lifelong friendship with fellow pupil Martín Zapater; the 131 letters Goya wrote to him from 1775 until Zapater's death in 1803 give valuable insight into Goya's early years at the court in Madrid.[5][10]

Visit to Italy

At age 14 Goya studied under the painter José Luzán, where he copied stamps[which?] for 4 years until he decided to work on his own, as he wrote later on "paint from my invention".[11] He moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs, a popular painter with Spanish royalty. He clashed with his master, and his examinations were unsatisfactory. Goya submitted entries for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1763 and 1766 but was denied entrance into the academia.[12]

 
Sacrifice to Pan, 1771. Colección José Gudiol, Barcelona

Rome was then the cultural capital of Europe and held all the prototypes of classical antiquity, while Spain lacked a coherent artistic direction, with all of its significant visual achievements in the past. Having failed to earn a scholarship, Goya relocated at his own expense to Rome in the old tradition of European artists stretching back at least to Albrecht Dürer.[13] He was an unknown at the time and so the records are scant and uncertain. Early biographers have him travelling to Rome with a gang of bullfighters, where he worked as a street acrobat, or for a Russian diplomat, or fell in love with a beautiful young nun whom he plotted to abduct from her convent.[14] It is possible that Goya completed two surviving mythological paintings during the visit, a Sacrifice to Vesta and a Sacrifice to Pan, both dated 1771.[15]

 
Portrait of Josefa Bayeu (1747–1812)

In 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma. That year he returned to Zaragoza and painted elements of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar (including Adoration of the Name of God), a cycle of frescoes for the monastic church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei, and the frescoes of the Sobradiel Palace. He studied with the Aragonese artist Francisco Bayeu y Subías and his painting began to show signs of the delicate tonalities for which he became famous. He befriended Francisco Bayeu and married his sister Josefa (he nicknamed her "Pepa")[16] on 25 July 1773. Their first child, Antonio Juan Ramon Carlos, was born on 29 August 1774.[17]

Madrid (1775–1789)

 
Caza con reclamo (1775)
 
The Parasol, 1777

Francisco Bayeu (Josefa Bayeu's brother), 1765 membership of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and directorship of the tapestry works from 1777 helped Goya earn a commission for a series of tapestry cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory. Over five years he designed some 42 patterns, many of which were used to decorate and insulate the stone walls of El Escorial and the Palacio Real del Pardo, the residences of the Spanish monarchs. While designing tapestries was neither prestigious nor well paid, his cartoons are mostly popularist in a rococo style, and Goya used them to bring himself to wider attention.[18]

The cartoons were not his only royal commissions, and were accompanied by a series of engravings, mostly copies after old masters such as Marcantonio Raimondi and Velázquez. Goya had a complicated relationship to the latter artist; while many of his contemporaries saw folly in Goya's attempts to copy and emulate him, he had access to a wide range of the long-dead painter's works that had been contained in the royal collection.[19] Nonetheless, etching was a medium that the young artist was to master, a medium that was to reveal both the true depths of his imagination and his political beliefs.[20] His c. 1779 etching of The Garrotted Man ("El agarrotado"[21]) was the largest work he had produced to date, and an obvious foreboding of his later "Disasters of War" series.[22]

 
The Garroted Man, before 1780. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Goya was beset by illness, and his condition was used against him by his rivals, who looked jealously upon any artist seen to be rising in stature. Some of the larger cartoons, such as The Wedding, were more than 8 by 10 feet, and had proved a drain on his physical strength. Ever resourceful, Goya turned this misfortune around, claiming that his illness had allowed him the insight to produce works that were more personal and informal.[23] However, he found the format limiting, as it did not allow him to capture complex color shifts or texture, and was unsuited to the impasto and glazing techniques he was by then applying to his painted works. The tapestries seem as comments on human types, fashion and fads.[24]

Other works from the period include a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid, which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

Court painter

In 1783, the Count of Floridablanca, favorite of King Charles III, commissioned Goya to paint his portrait. He became friends with the King's half-brother Luis, and spent two summers working on portraits of both the Infante and his family.[26] During the 1780s, his circle of patrons grew to include the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, the King and other notable people of the kingdom whom he painted. In 1786, Goya was given a salaried position as painter to Charles III.

 

Goya was appointed court painter to Charles IV in 1789. The following year he became First Court Painter, with a salary of 50,000 reales and an allowance of 500 ducats for a coach. He painted portraits of the king and the queen, and the Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy and many other nobles. These portraits are notable for their disinclination to flatter; his Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an especially brutal assessment of a royal family.[B] Modern interpreters view the portrait as satirical; it is thought to reveal the corruption behind the rule of Charles IV. Under his reign his wife Louisa was thought to have had the real power, and thus Goya placed her at the center of the group portrait. From the back left of the painting one can see the artist himself looking out at the viewer, and the painting behind the family depicts Lot and his daughters, thus once again echoing the underlying message of corruption and decay.

 
Portrait of Manuel Godoy, 1801. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Goya earned commissions from the highest ranks of the Spanish nobility, including Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, José Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba and his wife María del Pilar de Silva, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos. In 1801 he painted Godoy in a commission to commemorate the victory in the brief War of the Oranges against Portugal. The two were friends, even if Goya's 1801 portrait is usually seen as satire. Yet even after Godoy's fall from grace the politician referred to the artist in warm terms. Godoy saw himself as instrumental in the publication of the Caprichos and is widely believed to have commissioned La maja desnuda.[27]

Middle period (1793–1799)

 
La maja desnuda, 1790–1800
 
La maja vestida, 1800–1805

La Maja Desnuda (La maja desnuda) has been described as "the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art" without pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning.[28] The identity of the Majas is uncertain. The most popularly cited models are the Duchess of Alba, with whom Goya was sometimes thought to have had an affair, and Pepita Tudó, mistress of Manuel de Godoy. Neither theory has been verified, and it remains as likely that the paintings represent an idealized composite.[29] The paintings were never publicly exhibited during Goya's lifetime and were owned by Godoy.[30] In 1808 all Godoy's property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile, and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as 'obscene', returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.[31] In 1798 he painted luminous and airy scenes for the pendentives and cupola of the Real Ermita (Chapel) of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Many of these depict miracles of Saint Anthony of Padua set in the midst of contemporary Madrid.

 
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c. 1797, 21.5 cm × 15 cm (8+12 in × 5+78 in)

At some time between late 1792 and early 1793 an undiagnosed illness left Goya deaf. He became withdrawn and introspective while the direction and tone of his work changed. He began the series of aquatinted etchings, published in 1799 as the Caprichos—completed in parallel with the more official commissions of portraits and religious paintings. In 1799 Goya published 80 Caprichos prints depicting what he described as "the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual".[32] The visions in these prints are partly explained by the caption "The sleep of reason produces monsters". Yet these are not solely bleak; they demonstrate the artist's sharp satirical wit, particularly evident in etchings such as Hunting for Teeth.

While convalescing between 1793 and 1794, Goya completed a set of eleven small pictures painted on tin that mark a significant change in the tone and subject matter of his art, and draw from the dark and dramatic realms of fantasy nightmare. Yard with Lunatics is a vision of loneliness, fear and social alienation. The condemnation of brutality towards prisoners (whether criminal or insane) is a subject that Goya assayed in later works[33] that focused on the degradation of the human figure.[34] It was one of the first of Goya's mid-1790s cabinet paintings, in which his earlier search for ideal beauty gave way to an examination of the relationship between naturalism and fantasy that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career.[35] He was undergoing a nervous breakdown and entering prolonged physical illness,[36] and admitted that the series was created to reflect his own self-doubt, anxiety and fear that he was losing his mind.[37] Goya wrote that the works served "to occupy my imagination, tormented as it is by contemplation of my sufferings." The series, he said, consisted of pictures which "normally find no place in commissioned works."

Goya's physical and mental breakdown seems to have happened a few weeks after the French declaration of war on Spain. A contemporary reported, "The noises in his head and deafness aren't improving, yet his vision is much better and he is back in control of his balance."[38] These symptoms may indicate a prolonged viral encephalitis, or possibly a series of miniature strokes resulting from high blood pressure and which affected the hearing and balance centers of the brain. Symptoms of tinnitus, episodes of imbalance and progressive deafness are typical of Ménière's disease.[39] It is possible that Goya had cumulative lead poisoning, as he used massive amounts of lead white—which he ground himself[40]—in his paintings, both as a canvas primer and as a primary color.[41][42]

Other postmortem diagnostic assessments point toward paranoid dementia, possibly due to brain trauma, as evidenced by marked changes in his work after his recovery, culminating in the "black" paintings.[43] Art historians have noted Goya's singular ability to express his personal demons as horrific and fantastic imagery that speaks universally, and allows his audience to find its own catharsis in the images.[44]

Peninsular War (1808–1814)

The French army invaded Spain in 1808, leading to the Peninsular War of 1808–1814. The extent of Goya's involvement with the court of the "intruder king", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known; he painted works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting. After the restoration of the Spanish King Ferdinand VII in 1814, Goya denied any involvement with the French. By the time of his wife Josefa's death in 1812, he was painting The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808, and preparing the series of etchings later known as The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra). Ferdinand VII returned to Spain in 1814 but relations with Goya were not cordial. The artist completed portraits of the king for a variety of ministries, but not for the king himself.

Although Goya did not make his intention known when creating The Disasters of War, art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent Peninsular War and the move against liberalism in the aftermath of the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction.[45] They were not published until 1863, 35 years after his death. It is likely that only then was it considered politically safe to distribute a sequence of artworks criticising both the French and restored Bourbons.[46]

The first 47 plates in the series focus on incidents from the war and show the consequences of the conflict on individual soldiers and civilians. The middle series (plates 48 to 64) record the effects of the famine that hit Madrid in 1811–12, before the city was liberated from the French. The final 17 reflect the bitter disappointment of liberals when the restored Bourbon monarchy, encouraged by the Catholic hierarchy, rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and opposed both state and religious reform. Since their first publication, Goya's scenes of atrocities, starvation, degradation and humiliation have been described as the "prodigious flowering of rage".[47]

His works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

Quinta del Sordo and Black Paintings (1819–1822)

 

Records of Goya's later life are relatively scant, and ever politically aware, he suppressed a number of his works from this period, working instead in private.[49] He was tormented by a dread of old age and fear of madness.[50] Goya had been a successful and royally placed artist, but withdrew from public life during his final years. From the late 1810s he lived in near-solitude outside Madrid in a farmhouse converted into a studio. The house had become known as "La Quinta del Sordo" (The House of the Deaf Man), after the nearest farmhouse that had coincidentally also belonged to a deaf man.[51]

Art historians assume Goya felt alienated from the social and political trends that followed the 1814 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and that he viewed these developments as reactionary means of social control. In his unpublished art he seems to have railed against what he saw as a tactical retreat into Medievalism.[52] It is thought that he had hoped for political and religious reform, but like many liberals became disillusioned when the restored Bourbon monarchy and Catholic hierarchy rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812.[53]

At the age of 75, alone and in mental and physical despair, he completed the work of his 14 Black Paintings,[C] all of which were executed in oil directly onto the plaster walls of his house. Goya did not intend for the paintings to be exhibited, did not write of them,[D] and likely never spoke of them.[54] Around 1874, 50 years after his death, they were taken down and transferred to a canvas support by owner Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger. Many of the works were significantly altered during the restoration, and in the words of Arthur Lubow what remain are "at best a crude facsimile of what Goya painted."[55] The effects of time on the murals, coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas, meant that most of the murals suffered extensive damage and loss of paint. Today, they are on permanent display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

 
Witches' Sabbath or Aquelarre is one of 14 from the Black Paintings series.

Bordeaux (October 1824 – 1828)

 
The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, 1825–27, is the third and final Goya portrait which may depict Leocadia Weiss.[56]

Leocadia Weiss (née Zorrilla, 1790–1856),[57][58] the artist's maid, younger by 35 years, and a distant relative,[59] lived with and cared for Goya after Bayeu's death. She stayed with him in his Quinta del Sordo villa until 1824 with her daughter Rosario.[60] Leocadia was probably similar in features to Goya's first wife Josefa Bayeu, to the point that one of his well-known portraits bears the cautious title of Josefa Bayeu (or Leocadia Weiss).[61]

Not much is known about her beyond her fiery temperament. She was likely related to the Goicoechea family, a wealthy dynasty into which the artist's son, Javier, had married. It is known that Leocadia had an unhappy marriage with a jeweler, Isidore Weiss, but was separated from him since 1811, after he had accused her of "illicit conduct". She had two children before that time, and bore a third, Rosario, in 1814 when she was 26. Isidore was not the father, and it has often been speculated—although with little firm evidence—that the child belonged to Goya.[62] There has been much speculation that Goya and Weiss were romantically linked; however, it is more likely the affection between them was sentimental.[63]

Goya died on 16 April 1828.[64] Leocadia was left nothing in Goya's will; mistresses were often omitted in such circumstances, but it is also likely that he did not want to dwell on his mortality by thinking about or revising his will. She wrote to a number of Goya's friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya's also and by then were old men or had died, and did not reply. Largely destitute, she moved into rented accommodation, later passing on her copy of the Caprichos for free.[65]

Films and television

Goya's influence on modern and contemporary artists and writers

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Théophile Gautier described the figures as looking like "the corner baker and his wife after they won the lottery".[25]
  2. ^ "Even if one takes into consideration the fact that Spanish portraiture is often realistic to the point of eccentricity, Goya's portrait still remains unique in its drastic description of human bankruptcy". Licht (1979), 68
  3. ^ A contemporary inventory compiled by Goya's friend, the painter Antonio de Brugada, records 15. See Lubow, 2003
  4. ^ As he had with the "Caprichos" and "The Disasters of War" series. Licht (1979), 159

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Further reading

  • Baticle, Jeannine. Goya: Painter of Terrible Splendor, "Abrams Discoveries" series. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994
  • Buchholz, Elke Linda. Francisco de Goya. Cologne: Könemann, 1999. ISBN 3-8290-2930-6
  • Ciofalo, John J. The Self-Portraits of Francisco Goya. Cambridge University Press, 2002
  • Connell, Evan S. Francisco Goya: A Life. New York: Counterpoint, 2004. ISBN 978-1-58243-307-3
  • Eitner, Lorenz. An Outline of 19th Century European Painting. New York: Harper & Row, 1997. ISBN 978-0-0643-2977-4
  • Gassier, Pierre. Goya: A Biographical and Critical Study. New York: Skira, 1955
  • Gassier, Piere and Juliet Wilson. 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 978-3-8228-1823-7
  • Havard, Robert. "Goya's House Revisited: Why a Deaf Man Painted his Walls Black". Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume 82, Issue 5 July 2005
  • Hennigfeld, Ursula (ed.). Goya im Dialog der Medien, Kulturen und Disziplinen. Freiburg: Rombach, 2013. ISBN 978-3-7930-9737-2
  • Hilt, Douglas. "Goya: Turmoils of a Patriot" History Today (Aug 1973), Vol. 23 Issue 8, pp 536–545, online
  • Hughes, Robert. Goya. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 978-0-394-58028-9
  • Junquera, Juan José. The Black Paintings of Goya. London: Scala Publishers, 2008. ISBN 1-85759-273-5
  • Kravchenko, Anastasiia. Mythological subjects in Francisco Goya's work. 2019
  • Licht, Fred S. Goya in Perspective. New York 1973.
  • Licht, Fred. Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art. Universe Books, 1979. ISBN 0-87663-294-0
  • Litroy, Jo. Jusqu'à la mort. Paris: Editions du Masque, 2013. ISBN 978-2702440193
  • Symmons, Sarah. Goya: A Life in Letters. Pimlico, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7126-0679-0
  • Tomlinson, Janis. Francisco Goya y Lucientes 1746–1828. London: Phaidon, 1994. ISBN 978-0-7148-3844-1
  • Tomlinson, Janis. "Burn It, Hide It, Flaunt It: Goya's Majas and the Censorial Mind". The Art Journal, Volume 50, No. 4, 1991

External links

  • Francisco Goya's Cats
  • www.FranciscoGoya.com
  • Goya, the Secret of the Shadows, a documentary film by David Mauas, Spain, 2011, 77'
  • Goya: The Most Spanish of Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Caprichos (PDF). (10.0 MB) (PDF in the Arno Schmidt Reference Library)
  • Desastres de la guerra (PDF). (10.6 MB) (PDF in the Arno Schmidt Reference Library)
  • Bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA – Estampes de Francisco de Goya
  • Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF)
  • Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains a significant amount of material on the prints of Goya
  • Francisco Goya Prints in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library
  • Francisco Goya Work[permanent dead link] at the Muscarelle Museum of Art
  • Goya hidden micro-signatures, a revolutionary discovery

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Goya redirects here For the food company see Goya Foods For other uses see Goya disambiguation In this Spanish name the first or paternal surname is de Goya and the second or maternal family name is Lucientes Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes ˈ ɡ ɔɪ e Spanish fɾanˈ8isko xoˈse de ˈɣoʝa i luˈ8jentes 30 March 1746 16 April 1828 was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries 1 His paintings drawings and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th and 20th century painters 2 Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns 3 Francisco de GoyaPortrait of Goya by Vicente Lopez Portana c 1826 Museo del Prado MadridBornFrancisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes 1746 03 30 30 March 1746Fuendetodos Aragon SpainDied16 April 1828 1828 04 16 aged 82 Bordeaux FranceKnown forPainting drawingNotable workList of paintings and engravingsMovementRomanticismYard with Lunatics c 1794 Goya was born to a middle class family in 1746 in Fuendetodos in Aragon He studied painting from age 14 under Jose Luzan y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773 Their life was characterised by a series of pregnancies and miscarriages and only one child a son survived into adulthood Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty and Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace He was guarded and although letters and writings survive little is known about his thoughts He had a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic His later easel and mural paintings prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal social and political levels and contrast with his social climbing He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795 the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France In 1799 Goya became Primer Pintor de Camara Prime Court Painter the highest rank for a Spanish court painter In the late 1790s commissioned by Godoy he completed his La maja desnuda a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velazquez In 1800 01 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family also influenced by Velazquez In 1807 Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain Goya remained in Madrid during the war which seems to have affected him deeply Although he did not speak his thoughts in public they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints although published 35 years after his death and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808 Other works from his mid period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity mental asylums witches fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption all of which suggest that he feared for both his country s fate and his own mental and physical health His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819 1823 applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo House of the Deaf Man where disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain he lived in near isolation Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux accompanied by his much younger maid and companion Leocadia Weiss who may or may not have been his lover There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other major canvases Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side and with failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82 His body was later re interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid Famously the skull was missing a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid who wired back Send Goya with or without head 4 Contents 1 Early years 1746 1771 2 Visit to Italy 3 Madrid 1775 1789 4 Court painter 5 Middle period 1793 1799 6 Peninsular War 1808 1814 7 Quinta del Sordo and Black Paintings 1819 1822 8 Bordeaux October 1824 1828 9 Films and television 10 Goya s influence on modern and contemporary artists and writers 11 References 11 1 Footnotes 11 2 Citations 12 Further reading 13 External linksEarly years 1746 1771 Edit Birth house of Francisco Goya Fuendetodos Zaragoza Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos Aragon Spain on 30 March 1746 to Jose 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 why likely Jose was commissioned to work there 5 They were lower middle class Jose was the son of a notary and of Basque origin his ancestors being from Zerain 6 earning his living as a gilder specialising in religious and decorative craftwork 7 He oversaw the gilding and most of the ornamentation during the rebuilding of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar Santa Maria del Pilar the principal cathedral of Zaragoza Francisco was their fourth child following his sister Rita b 1737 brother Tomas b 1739 who was to follow in his father s trade and second sister Jacinta b 1743 There were two younger sons Mariano b 1750 and Camilo b 1753 8 His mother s family had pretensions of nobility and the house a modest brick cottage was owned by her family and perhaps fancifully bore their crest 7 About 1749 Jose and Gracia bought a home in Zaragoza and were able to return to live in the city Although there are no surviving records it is thought that Goya may have attended the Escuelas Pias de San Anton which offered free schooling His education seems to have been adequate but not enlightening he had reading writing and numeracy and some knowledge of the classics According to Robert Hughes the artist seems to have taken no more interest than a carpenter in philosophical or theological matters and his views on painting were very down to earth Goya was no theoretician 9 At school he formed a close and lifelong friendship with fellow pupil Martin Zapater the 131 letters Goya wrote to him from 1775 until Zapater s death in 1803 give valuable insight into Goya s early years at the court in Madrid 5 10 Visit to Italy EditAt age 14 Goya studied under the painter Jose Luzan where he copied stamps which for 4 years until he decided to work on his own as he wrote later on paint from my invention 11 He moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs a popular painter with Spanish royalty He clashed with his master and his examinations were unsatisfactory Goya submitted entries for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1763 and 1766 but was denied entrance into the academia 12 Sacrifice to Pan 1771 Coleccion Jose Gudiol Barcelona Rome was then the cultural capital of Europe and held all the prototypes of classical antiquity while Spain lacked a coherent artistic direction with all of its significant visual achievements in the past Having failed to earn a scholarship Goya relocated at his own expense to Rome in the old tradition of European artists stretching back at least to Albrecht Durer 13 He was an unknown at the time and so the records are scant and uncertain Early biographers have him travelling to Rome with a gang of bullfighters where he worked as a street acrobat or for a Russian diplomat or fell in love with a beautiful young nun whom he plotted to abduct from her convent 14 It is possible that Goya completed two surviving mythological paintings during the visit a Sacrifice to Vesta and a Sacrifice to Pan both dated 1771 15 Portrait of Josefa Bayeu 1747 1812 In 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma That year he returned to Zaragoza and painted elements of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar including Adoration of the Name of God a cycle of frescoes for the monastic church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei and the frescoes of the Sobradiel Palace He studied with the Aragonese artist Francisco Bayeu y Subias and his painting began to show signs of the delicate tonalities for which he became famous He befriended Francisco Bayeu and married his sister Josefa he nicknamed her Pepa 16 on 25 July 1773 Their first child Antonio Juan Ramon Carlos was born on 29 August 1774 17 Madrid 1775 1789 EditSee also List of Francisco Goya s tapestry cartoons Caza con reclamo 1775 The Parasol 1777 Francisco Bayeu Josefa Bayeu s brother 1765 membership of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and directorship of the tapestry works from 1777 helped Goya earn a commission for a series of tapestry cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory Over five years he designed some 42 patterns many of which were used to decorate and insulate the stone walls of El Escorial and the Palacio Real del Pardo the residences of the Spanish monarchs While designing tapestries was neither prestigious nor well paid his cartoons are mostly popularist in a rococo style and Goya used them to bring himself to wider attention 18 The cartoons were not his only royal commissions and were accompanied by a series of engravings mostly copies after old masters such as Marcantonio Raimondi and Velazquez Goya had a complicated relationship to the latter artist while many of his contemporaries saw folly in Goya s attempts to copy and emulate him he had access to a wide range of the long dead painter s works that had been contained in the royal collection 19 Nonetheless etching was a medium that the young artist was to master a medium that was to reveal both the true depths of his imagination and his political beliefs 20 His c 1779 etching of The Garrotted Man El agarrotado 21 was the largest work he had produced to date and an obvious foreboding of his later Disasters of War series 22 The Garroted Man before 1780 National Gallery of Art Washington D C Goya was beset by illness and his condition was used against him by his rivals who looked jealously upon any artist seen to be rising in stature Some of the larger cartoons such as The Wedding were more than 8 by 10 feet and had proved a drain on his physical strength Ever resourceful Goya turned this misfortune around claiming that his illness had allowed him the insight to produce works that were more personal and informal 23 However he found the format limiting as it did not allow him to capture complex color shifts or texture and was unsuited to the impasto and glazing techniques he was by then applying to his painted works The tapestries seem as comments on human types fashion and fads 24 Other works from the period include a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art Court painter EditSee also List of works by Francisco Goya Charles IV of Spain and His Family 1800 01 A In 1783 the Count of Floridablanca favorite of King Charles III commissioned Goya to paint his portrait He became friends with the King s half brother Luis and spent two summers working on portraits of both the Infante and his family 26 During the 1780s his circle of patrons grew to include the Duke and Duchess of Osuna the King and other notable people of the kingdom whom he painted In 1786 Goya was given a salaried position as painter to Charles III The Family of the Infante Don Luis 1784 Magnani Rocca Parma Goya was appointed court painter to Charles IV in 1789 The following year he became First Court Painter with a salary of 50 000 reales and an allowance of 500 ducats for a coach He painted portraits of the king and the queen and the Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy and many other nobles These portraits are notable for their disinclination to flatter his Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an especially brutal assessment of a royal family B Modern interpreters view the portrait as satirical it is thought to reveal the corruption behind the rule of Charles IV Under his reign his wife Louisa was thought to have had the real power and thus Goya placed her at the center of the group portrait From the back left of the painting one can see the artist himself looking out at the viewer and the painting behind the family depicts Lot and his daughters thus once again echoing the underlying message of corruption and decay Portrait of Manuel Godoy 1801 Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Goya earned commissions from the highest ranks of the Spanish nobility including Pedro Tellez Giron 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife Maria Josefa Pimentel 12th Countess Duchess of Benavente Jose Alvarez de Toledo Duke of Alba and his wife Maria del Pilar de Silva and Maria Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval Marchioness of Pontejos In 1801 he painted Godoy in a commission to commemorate the victory in the brief War of the Oranges against Portugal The two were friends even if Goya s 1801 portrait is usually seen as satire Yet even after Godoy s fall from grace the politician referred to the artist in warm terms Godoy saw himself as instrumental in the publication of the Caprichos and is widely believed to have commissioned La maja desnuda 27 Middle period 1793 1799 Edit La maja desnuda 1790 1800 La maja vestida 1800 1805 La Maja Desnuda La maja desnuda has been described as the first totally profane life size female nude in Western art without pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning 28 The identity of the Majas is uncertain The most popularly cited models are the Duchess of Alba with whom Goya was sometimes thought to have had an affair and Pepita Tudo mistress of Manuel de Godoy Neither theory has been verified and it remains as likely that the paintings represent an idealized composite 29 The paintings were never publicly exhibited during Goya s lifetime and were owned by Godoy 30 In 1808 all Godoy s property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as obscene returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando 31 In 1798 he painted luminous and airy scenes for the pendentives and cupola of the Real Ermita Chapel of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid Many of these depict miracles of Saint Anthony of Padua set in the midst of contemporary Madrid The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters c 1797 21 5 cm 15 cm 8 1 2 in 5 7 8 in At some time between late 1792 and early 1793 an undiagnosed illness left Goya deaf He became withdrawn and introspective while the direction and tone of his work changed He began the series of aquatinted etchings published in 1799 as the Caprichos completed in parallel with the more official commissions of portraits and religious paintings In 1799 Goya published 80 Caprichos prints depicting what he described as the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom ignorance or self interest have made usual 32 The visions in these prints are partly explained by the caption The sleep of reason produces monsters Yet these are not solely bleak they demonstrate the artist s sharp satirical wit particularly evident in etchings such as Hunting for Teeth While convalescing between 1793 and 1794 Goya completed a set of eleven small pictures painted on tin that mark a significant change in the tone and subject matter of his art and draw from the dark and dramatic realms of fantasy nightmare Yard with Lunatics is a vision of loneliness fear and social alienation The condemnation of brutality towards prisoners whether criminal or insane is a subject that Goya assayed in later works 33 that focused on the degradation of the human figure 34 It was one of the first of Goya s mid 1790s cabinet paintings in which his earlier search for ideal beauty gave way to an examination of the relationship between naturalism and fantasy that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career 35 He was undergoing a nervous breakdown and entering prolonged physical illness 36 and admitted that the series was created to reflect his own self doubt anxiety and fear that he was losing his mind 37 Goya wrote that the works served to occupy my imagination tormented as it is by contemplation of my sufferings The series he said consisted of pictures which normally find no place in commissioned works Goya s physical and mental breakdown seems to have happened a few weeks after the French declaration of war on Spain A contemporary reported The noises in his head and deafness aren t improving yet his vision is much better and he is back in control of his balance 38 These symptoms may indicate a prolonged viral encephalitis or possibly a series of miniature strokes resulting from high blood pressure and which affected the hearing and balance centers of the brain Symptoms of tinnitus episodes of imbalance and progressive deafness are typical of Meniere s disease 39 It is possible that Goya had cumulative lead poisoning as he used massive amounts of lead white which he ground himself 40 in his paintings both as a canvas primer and as a primary color 41 42 Other postmortem diagnostic assessments point toward paranoid dementia possibly due to brain trauma as evidenced by marked changes in his work after his recovery culminating in the black paintings 43 Art historians have noted Goya s singular ability to express his personal demons as horrific and fantastic imagery that speaks universally and allows his audience to find its own catharsis in the images 44 Peninsular War 1808 1814 EditThe French army invaded Spain in 1808 leading to the Peninsular War of 1808 1814 The extent of Goya s involvement with the court of the intruder king Joseph I the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte is not known he painted works for French patrons and sympathisers but kept neutral during the fighting After the restoration of the Spanish King Ferdinand VII in 1814 Goya denied any involvement with the French By the time of his wife Josefa s death in 1812 he was painting The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808 and preparing the series of etchings later known as The Disasters of War Los desastres de la guerra Ferdinand VII returned to Spain in 1814 but relations with Goya were not cordial The artist completed portraits of the king for a variety of ministries but not for the king himself Although Goya did not make his intention known when creating The Disasters of War art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising the subsequent Peninsular War and the move against liberalism in the aftermath of the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 The scenes are singularly disturbing sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction 45 They were not published until 1863 35 years after his death It is likely that only then was it considered politically safe to distribute a sequence of artworks criticising both the French and restored Bourbons 46 The first 47 plates in the series focus on incidents from the war and show the consequences of the conflict on individual soldiers and civilians The middle series plates 48 to 64 record the effects of the famine that hit Madrid in 1811 12 before the city was liberated from the French The final 17 reflect the bitter disappointment of liberals when the restored Bourbon monarchy encouraged by the Catholic hierarchy rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and opposed both state and religious reform Since their first publication Goya s scenes of atrocities starvation degradation and humiliation have been described as the prodigious flowering of rage 47 The Third of May 1808 1814 Oil on canvas 266 cm 345 cm 105 in 136 in Museo del Prado Madrid The Second of May 1808 1814 Plate 4 Las mujeres dan valor The women are courageous This plate depicts a struggle between a group of civilians fighting soldiers Plate 5 Y son fieras And they are fierce or And they fight like wild beasts Civilian women fight against soldiers with spears and rocks Plate 46 Esto es malo This is bad A monk is killed by French soldiers looting church treasures A rare sympathetic image of clergy generally shown on the side of oppression and injustice 48 Plate 47 Asi sucedio This is how it happened The last print in the first group Murdered monks lie by French soldiers looting church treasures His works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting and probably the etchings of Los Disparates Quinta del Sordo and Black Paintings 1819 1822 Edit Saturn Devouring His Son 1819 1823 Records of Goya s later life are relatively scant and ever politically aware he suppressed a number of his works from this period working instead in private 49 He was tormented by a dread of old age and fear of madness 50 Goya had been a successful and royally placed artist but withdrew from public life during his final years From the late 1810s he lived in near solitude outside Madrid in a farmhouse converted into a studio The house had become known as La Quinta del Sordo The House of the Deaf Man after the nearest farmhouse that had coincidentally also belonged to a deaf man 51 Art historians assume Goya felt alienated from the social and political trends that followed the 1814 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and that he viewed these developments as reactionary means of social control In his unpublished art he seems to have railed against what he saw as a tactical retreat into Medievalism 52 It is thought that he had hoped for political and religious reform but like many liberals became disillusioned when the restored Bourbon monarchy and Catholic hierarchy rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 53 At the age of 75 alone and in mental and physical despair he completed the work of his 14 Black Paintings C all of which were executed in oil directly onto the plaster walls of his house Goya did not intend for the paintings to be exhibited did not write of them D and likely never spoke of them 54 Around 1874 50 years after his death they were taken down and transferred to a canvas support by owner Baron Frederic Emile d Erlanger Many of the works were significantly altered during the restoration and in the words of Arthur Lubow what remain are at best a crude facsimile of what Goya painted 55 The effects of time on the murals coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas meant that most of the murals suffered extensive damage and loss of paint Today they are on permanent display at the Museo del Prado Madrid Witches Sabbath or Aquelarre is one of 14 from the Black Paintings series Bordeaux October 1824 1828 Edit The Milkmaid of Bordeaux 1825 27 is the third and final Goya portrait which may depict Leocadia Weiss 56 Leocadia Weiss nee Zorrilla 1790 1856 57 58 the artist s maid younger by 35 years and a distant relative 59 lived with and cared for Goya after Bayeu s death She stayed with him in his Quinta del Sordo villa until 1824 with her daughter Rosario 60 Leocadia was probably similar in features to Goya s first wife Josefa Bayeu to the point that one of his well known portraits bears the cautious title of Josefa Bayeu or Leocadia Weiss 61 Not much is known about her beyond her fiery temperament She was likely related to the Goicoechea family a wealthy dynasty into which the artist s son Javier had married It is known that Leocadia had an unhappy marriage with a jeweler Isidore Weiss but was separated from him since 1811 after he had accused her of illicit conduct She had two children before that time and bore a third Rosario in 1814 when she was 26 Isidore was not the father and it has often been speculated although with little firm evidence that the child belonged to Goya 62 There has been much speculation that Goya and Weiss were romantically linked however it is more likely the affection between them was sentimental 63 Goya died on 16 April 1828 64 Leocadia was left nothing in Goya s will mistresses were often omitted in such circumstances but it is also likely that he did not want to dwell on his mortality by thinking about or revising his will She wrote to a number of Goya s friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya s also and by then were old men or had died and did not reply Largely destitute she moved into rented accommodation later passing on her copy of the Caprichos for free 65 Films and television EditGoya Crazy Like a Genius 2002 a documentary by Ian MacMillan presented by Robert Hughes Goya s Ghosts 2006 directed by Milos Forman Volaverunt 1999 directed by Bigas Luna and based on the novel by Antonio Larreta Goya in Bordeaux 1999 Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment 1971 German Goya oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis is a 1971 East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize It is based on a novel with the same title by Lion Feuchtwanger The Naked Maja 1958 directed by Henry Koster A film about the painter Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba Anthony Franciosa played Goya and Ava Gardner played The Duchess Tiempo de ilustrados Time of the Enlightened in the series The Ministry of Time Goya played by Pedro Casablanc must repaint La maja desnuda after a cult called the Exterminating Angels destroy it Goya s influence on modern and contemporary artists and writers EditIn the early 20th century Spanish masters Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali drew influence from Los caprichos and the Black Paintings of Goya 66 In the 21st century American postmodern painters such as Michael Zansky and Bradley Rubenstein draw inspiration from The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters 1796 98 and Goya s Black Paintings Zanksy s Giants and Dwarf Series 1990 2002 of large scale paintings and wood carvings use imagery from Goya 67 68 Spanish author Fernando Arrabal s novel The Burial of the Sardine was inspired by Goya s painting 69 Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky s I Am Goya was inspired by Goya s anti war paintings 70 The video game Impasto was based on the works of Goya 71 References EditFootnotes Edit Theophile Gautier described the figures as looking like the corner baker and his wife after they won the lottery 25 Even if one takes into consideration the fact that Spanish portraiture is often realistic to the point of eccentricity Goya s portrait still remains unique in its drastic description of human bankruptcy Licht 1979 68 A contemporary inventory compiled by Goya s friend the painter Antonio de Brugada records 15 See Lubow 2003 As he had with the Caprichos and The Disasters of War series Licht 1979 159 Citations Edit Voorhies James October 2003 Francisco de Goya 1746 1828 and the Spanish Enlightenment www metmuseum org HEILBRUNN TIMELINE OF ART HISTORY ESSAYS Department of European Paintings The Metropolitan Museum of Art Retrieved 17 April 2021 Harris Frankfort Enriqueta 12 April 2021 Francisco Goya The Napoleonic invasion and period after the restoration Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved 18 April 2021 The Frick Collection Exhibitions www frick org Retrieved 18 April 2021 Carlos Fuentes 1992 The Buried Mirror Reflections on Spain and the New World London Andre Deutsch Ltd p 230 ISBN 978 02339 79953 a b Hughes 2004 32 ZERAINGO OSPETSUAK Francisco de Goya Zerain com Archived from the original on 22 October 2017 Retrieved 21 October 2017 a b Connell 2004 6 7 Hughes 2004 27 Hughes 2004 33 Cartas de Goya a Martin Zapater Museo del Prado Retrieved 13 December 2015 Connell 2004 14 Hagen amp Hagen 317 Hughes 2004 34 Hughes 2004 37 Eitner 1997 58 Baticle 1994 74 Symmons 2004 66 Hagen amp Hagen 7 Hughes 2004 95 Hagen Hagen 1999 7 print study British Museum The British Museum Retrieved 7 November 2022 Hughes 2004 96 Hughes 2004 130 Hughes 2004 83 Chocano Carina Goya s Ghosts Los Angeles Times 20 July 2007 Retrieved 18 January 2008 Tomlinson 2003 147 Tomlinson 1991 59 Licht 1979 83 The Nude Maja the Prado Retrieved 17 July 2010 The unflinching eye The Guardian October 2003 Museo del Prado Catalogo de las pinturas Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura Madrid 1996 138 ISBN 84 87317 53 7 The Sleep of Reason Archived 22 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine Linda Simon www worldandi com Retrieved 2 December 2006 Crow Thomas 2007 3 Tensions of the Enlightenment Goya In Stephen Eisenman ed Nineteenth Century Art A Critical History PDF 3rd ed New York Thames and Hudson Retrieved 12 October 2013 Licht 1979 156 Schulz Andrew The Expressive Body in Goya s Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent The Art Bulletin 80 4 1998 It is not known why Goya became sick the many theories range from polio or syphilis to lead poisoning Yet he survived until eighty two years Hughes Robert The unflinching eye The Guardian 4 October 2003 Retrieved 30 January 2010 Hustvedt Siri 10 August 2006 Mysteries of the Rectangle Essays on Painting Princeton Architectural Press p 63 ISBN 978 1 56898 618 0 Mary Mathews Gedo 1985 Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art PPA Analytic Press p 82 ISBN 978 0 88163 030 5 Historical Clinicopathological Conference 2017 Archived 11 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine University of Maryland School of Medicine Retrieved 27 January 2017 James G Hollandsworth 31 January 1990 The Physiology of Psychological Disorders Schizophrenia Depression Anxiety and Substance Abuse Springer pp 3 4 ISBN 978 0 306 43353 5 Connell 2004 78 79 Petra ten Doesschate Chu Laurinda S Dixon 2008 Twenty first century Perspectives on Nineteenth century Art Essays in Honor of Gabriel P Weisberg Associated University Presse p 127 ISBN 978 0 87413 011 9 Williams Paul 3 February 2011 The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance Karnac Books p 238 ISBN 978 1 78049 298 8 Wilson Bareau 45 Jones Jonathan Look what we did The Guardian 31 March 2003 Retrieved 29 August 2009 Connell 2004 175 Fremont Barnes Gregory The Napoleonic wars the Peninsular War 1807 1814 Oxford Osprey Publishing 2002 73 ISBN 1 84176 370 5 Connell 175 The cause of Goya s illness is unknown theories range from polio to syphilis to lead poisoning See Connell 78 79 Connell 204 Hughes 372 Larson Kay Dark Knight New York Magazine Volume 22 No 20 15 May 1989 111 Stoichita Coderch 25 30 Licht 1979 159 Lubow Arthur The Secret of the Black Paintings The New York Times 27 July 2003 Retrieved 3 October 2010 Hughes 2004 402 Junquera 13 Stevenson Ian 2003 European Cases of the Reincarnation Type 2015 ed McFarland amp Co pp 243 244 ISBN 9781476601151 Gassier 103 Buchholz 79 Connell 2004 28 Hughes 2004 372 Junquera 68 Chilvers Ian January 2004 Goya Francisco de The Oxford Dictionary of Art 2014 online ed Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 860476 1 Retrieved 15 April 2019 Connell 2004 235 Francisco Goya Paintings Bio Ideas The Art Story Retrieved 26 April 2020 Kuspit Donald 2014 Michael Zansky Bosch for Today Milano Charta pp 7 19 ISBN 978 1 938922503 Kuspit Donald Donald Kuspit on Michael Zansky s Van Gogh Portraits White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art Guicharnaud Jacques 1962 Forbidden Games Arrabal Yale French Studies 29 116 119 doi 10 2307 2929043 JSTOR 2929043 Retrieved 27 July 2020 Anderson Raymond H 1 June 2010 Andrei Voznesensky Russian Poet Dies at 77 The New York Times Retrieved 27 July 2020 Impasto on Steam Further reading EditBaticle Jeannine Goya Painter of Terrible Splendor Abrams Discoveries series New York Harry N Abrams 1994 Buchholz Elke Linda Francisco de Goya Cologne Konemann 1999 ISBN 3 8290 2930 6 Ciofalo John J The Self Portraits of Francisco Goya Cambridge University Press 2002 Connell Evan S Francisco Goya A Life New York Counterpoint 2004 ISBN 978 1 58243 307 3 Eitner Lorenz An Outline of 19th Century European Painting New York Harper amp Row 1997 ISBN 978 0 0643 2977 4 Gassier Pierre Goya A Biographical and Critical Study New York Skira 1955 Gassier Piere and Juliet Wilson 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 amp Hagen Rainer Francisco Goya 1746 1828 London Taschen 1999 ISBN 978 3 8228 1823 7 Havard Robert Goya s House Revisited Why a Deaf Man Painted his Walls Black Bulletin of Spanish Studies Volume 82 Issue 5 July 2005 Hennigfeld Ursula ed Goya im Dialog der Medien Kulturen und Disziplinen Freiburg Rombach 2013 ISBN 978 3 7930 9737 2 Hilt Douglas Goya Turmoils of a Patriot History Today Aug 1973 Vol 23 Issue 8 pp 536 545 online Hughes Robert Goya New York Alfred A Knopf 2004 ISBN 978 0 394 58028 9 Junquera Juan Jose The Black Paintings of Goya London Scala Publishers 2008 ISBN 1 85759 273 5 Kravchenko Anastasiia Mythological subjects in Francisco Goya s work 2019 Licht Fred S Goya in Perspective New York 1973 Licht Fred Goya The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art Universe Books 1979 ISBN 0 87663 294 0 Litroy Jo Jusqu a la mort Paris Editions du Masque 2013 ISBN 978 2702440193 Symmons Sarah Goya A Life in Letters Pimlico 2004 ISBN 978 0 7126 0679 0 Tomlinson Janis Francisco Goya y Lucientes 1746 1828 London Phaidon 1994 ISBN 978 0 7148 3844 1 Tomlinson Janis Burn It Hide It Flaunt It Goya s Majas and the Censorial Mind The Art Journal Volume 50 No 4 1991External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Francisco de Goya y Lucientes category Wikiquote has quotations related to Francisco Goya Francisco Goya s Cats www 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