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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. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the mode…
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culture · Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828) · painter · printmaker · lithographer · etcher · graphic artist · draftsperson · visual artist · also Francisco Goya, Francisco Goya Lucientes, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José Goya Lucientes, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Goya
Born 30 March 1746 · Died 16 April 1828 · Q5432
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2026· 4 entries
“A corral of madmen and two who are fighting, naked, with their keeper beating them and others with sacks (a subject which I witnessed in Saragossa).”
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“to occupy my imagination, tormented as it is by contemplation of my sufferings.”
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БТА: Francisco Goya: Dreams of a Keen Mind Opens at National Gallery
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2024· 1 entry
An extensive exhibition of Goya's etchings was held at the Norton Simon Museum in Southern California
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2021· 1 entry
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; catalog by Mark McDonald ISBN 978-1-588-39714-0
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2017· 2 entries
The Wire: Francisco Goya and the Unremitting Violence of the Human Condition
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NDTV: Francisco Goya's Mystery Illness Diagnosed After 200 Years
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2014· 1 entry
NPR: Spanish Artist Francisco Goya On Display In Boston: An Extraordinary Exhibit
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2012· 1 entry
University of Wyoming: Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos
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2011· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 2 avril 2011.”
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2004· 2 entries
“letter 206, c. 1787; in Goya, A life in Letters, edited and introduced by Sarah Simmons; transl. Philip Troutman, London, Pimlico, 2004”
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“letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater and , Feb. 1784; as quoted in Goya, A life in Letters, edited and introduced by Sarah Simmons; translations by Philip Troutman, London, Pimlico, 2004”
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2003· 3 entries
“In a report, 1792 which Goya was invited to write to the Academy of San Fernando on the subject of teaching art; as cited by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 126”
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“Caption, plate 43 of Los Caprichos etching and aquatint, 1796-97; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Robert Hughes: in Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 73”
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“letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater , June 1786; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 81”
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2002· 1 entry
“letter to his friend Bernardo de Iriarte, 7 Jan, 1794; as quoted by Jane Kromm, in The art of frenzy, 2002, p. 194”
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1999· 1 entry
“In a report in 1792 - Goya wrote to the Academy of San Fernando, on 'teaching art'; as quoted in Francisco Goya y Licientis, Janis Tomlinson, Phaodon 1999, p. 70”
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1982· 2 entries
“letter to his friend Don Martin Zapater, Madrid, 25 Feb. 1785; from: 'Francisco de Goya. MS Letters to Martín Zapater 1774-99', Collection of Prado - published as Cartas a Martín Zapater; ed, X. de Salas & M. Agueda, Madrid 1982 #64, p. 130”
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“letter to his friend Martín Zapater and , March 1793; from: 'Francisco de Goya. MS Letters to Martín Zapater 1774-99', Collection of Prado - published as Cartas a Martín Zapater; ed, X. de Salas & M. Agueda, Madrid 1982, p. 211; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 127”
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1971· 1 entry
“letter to his friend Bernardo de Iriarte, deputy of the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Jan. 1794; as quoted in 'Goya and Iriarte', in Goya his Life and Work, P. Gassier and J. Wilson, 1971, p. 382”
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1919· 1 entry
Goya's body was re-interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid
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1914· 3 entries
“letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, early Jan. 1779 and ; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 110”
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“letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 10 December 1784; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 134-135”
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“a note on an etching-plate, 1795/96; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 195”
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1911· 2 entries
Based on Goya's paintings called Goyescas, and later wrote an opera of the same name based on the suite
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“His Majesty's Giant Anteater – A New Goya is Discovered!”
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1868· 4 entries
“letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 1784; taken from Francisco Zapater y Gomez : Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perseverencia, p. 58”
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“letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 1789; from: Francisco Zapater y Gomez : Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perse Verencia; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 182”
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“letter to his friend Martín Zapater, and , February, 1790, from Francisco Zapater y Gomez: Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perse Verencia, p. 50”
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“letter to his friend Zapater, April 23, 1794; in Goya; Noticias biograficas, Francisco Zapater y Gomez, Zaragoza, 1868; first published in 'La Perseverencia', p. 53; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 203-204”
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1828· 19 entries
Died 1828-04-16.
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“El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.”
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“cabinet paintings were small portable paintings, which did not need a lot of wall-space and could be moved around at the owner's whim. Goya's famous series 'Caprichos' really begin after physical and probably mental breakdown in 1792. He was 46, and thereafter deaf until his death in 1828”
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“L'obiettivo della mia opera è quello di riportare la realtà degli eventi.”
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“La casa es la sepultura de las mujeres.”
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“La mia opera è molto semplice. La mia arte rivela idealismo e verità.”
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“La fantasía, aislada de la razón, solo produce monstruos imposibles. Unida a ella, en cambio, es la madre del arte y fuente de sus deseos.”
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“Me es muy odioso inventar para otro... Fray Manuel (Bayeu) no necesita que otro le invente.”
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“Siento ardientes deseos de perpetuar por medio del pincel las más notables y heroicas acciones o escenas de nuestra gloriosa insurrección contra el tirano de Europa.”
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“Yo no he tenido otros maestros que la Naturaleza, Velázquez y Rembrandt.”
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“La fantasia abbandonata dalla ragione genera mostri impossibili; unita ad essa è madre delle arti e origine delle sue meraviglie.”
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“Dal cosiddetto "Commento di Ayala", uno dei tre commenti a Il sonno della ragione genera mostri, tradizionalmente attribuiti a Goya.”
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“Sus cualidades excepcionales las malogran esos maestros amanerados que siempre ven líneas y jamás cuerpos. Pero ¿dónde encuentran líneas en la naturaleza? Yo no distingo más que cuerpos luminosos y cuerpos oscuros, planos que avanzan y planos que se alejan, relieves y concavidades.”
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“E così continua il resoconto, orrore dopo orrore. (Aldous Huxley)”
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“No recognition / Nadie se conoce' [Goya wrote on this plate no. 6:] 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 recognizes himself.”
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“El mayor enemigo de los aragoneses son los aragoneses.”
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“Il sonno della ragione genera mostri.”
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“L'atto della pittura riguarda un cuore che racconta a un altro cuore dove ha trovato salvezza.”
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1824· 1 entry
To retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may have been his lover
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1814· 2 entries
Goya denied any involvement with the French
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But relations with Goya were not cordial
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1812· 1 entry
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)
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1808· 2 entries
Leading to the Peninsular War of 1808–1814
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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
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1807· 1 entry
Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain
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1803· 2 entries
“s death in 1803 give valuable insight into Goya”
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Give valuable insight into Goya's early years at the court in Madrid
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1801· 1 entry
Painted Godoy in a commission to commemorate the victory in the brief War of the Oranges against Portugal
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1800· 1 entry
“The reference to the occult and the world of demons, which then will populate the art of Goya during the 1800's, takes form in a couple of occasions Goya wrote to his friend Martín that he is a painter-demon.”
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1796· 1 entry
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”
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1746· 1 entry
Born 1746-03-30.
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