Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya

Author: Tim McNeese

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1438146159

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An introduction to the life and career of the Spanish artist.

Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya

Author: Sarah Carr-Gomm

Publisher: Parkstone International

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1783104171

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Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was recognised from a very early age as the leading artist in Spain, rising to become the official portraitist of the Spanish Court. He was famed for the quality and speed at which he executed his drawings, and his etchings are of extraordinary delicacy. His use of chiaroscuro in his dark, intense paintings influenced many artists, including Manet. This monograph presents the essential works of this pioneering artist, today considered the father of modern art.

Francisco De Goya
Francisco De Goya

Author: Sandra Forty

Publisher: TAJ Books International

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1627320180

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The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled ñReviser of Indecent Paintings.î But by the age of 40, Goya had established himself as a leading Spanish artist. Goya simultaneously pursued a number of disparate projects, commissions he received from prestigious churches and royalty, as well as producing several lengthy series of lithographs to express his dislike of several subjects, notably Spanish high society and war. Brushing into controversy on several occasions, Goya threaded the political needle of alternating French and Spanish rule of his home country of Spain as well as successfully navigated the choppy waters of the Spanish Inquisition when it questioned the morality of La Maja Desnuda, one of his most famous paintings.