Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters.
Background
- Born in
- Fuendetodos
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San FernandoReal Academia de Nobles y Bellas Artes de San LuisSchool of St. Thomas Aquinas of the Piarist Schools of Zaragoza
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Your Excellency, I am in receipt of His Majesty's royal order, which your excellency communicated to me on the 6th inst., accepting the offer of my work, the 'Caprichos' on eighty copper plate engrave…"
"Painting chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons."
"No recognition / Nadie se conoce' The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recogni…"
"essay on Goya by James Voorhies: 'Francisco de Goya and the Spanish Enlightenment', in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 2003"
"I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me."
"To occupy my imagination, which has been depressed by dwelling on my misfortunes, and to compensate at least in part for some of the considerable expenses I have incurred, I set myself to painting a s…"
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Timeline
1746
Born
Birth1828
Died
Death
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