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Witches Sabbath
Painting ID:: 50694
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Francisco Goya
Witches Sabbath
mk214
1797-8
Oil on canvas
44x31cm
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The Spell
Painting ID:: 50695
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Francisco Goya
The Spell
mk214
1797-8
Oil on canvas
45x32cm
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Marquesa de la Solana
Painting ID:: 50696
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Francisco Goya
Marquesa de la Solana
mk214
c.1794-5
Oil on canvas
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Duchess of Alba
Painting ID:: 50697
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Francisco Goya
Duchess of Alba
mk214
1797
Oil on canvas
210.2x149.3cm
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Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
Painting ID:: 50698
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Francisco Goya
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
mk214
1798
Oil on canvas
205x133cm
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Francisco Goya
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1746-1828
Goya is considered the 18th Century's foremost painter and etcher of Spanish culture, known for his realistic scenes of battles, bullfights and human corruption. Goya lived during a time of upheaval in Spain that included war with France, the Inquisition, the rule of Napoleon's brother, Joseph, as the King of Spain and, finally, the reign of the Spanish King Ferdinand VII. Experts proclaim these events -- and Goya's deafness as a result of an illness in 1793 -- as central to understanding Goya's work, which frequently depicts human misery in a satiric and sometimes nightmarish fashion. From the 1770s he was a royal court painter for Charles III and Charles IV, and when Bonaparte took the throne in 1809, Goya swore fealty to the new king. When the crown was restored to Spain's Ferdinand VII (1814), Goya, in spite of his earlier allegiance to the French king, was reinstated as royal painter. After 1824 he lived in self-imposed exile in Bordeaux until his death, reportedly because of political differences with Ferdinand. Over his long career he created hundreds of paintings, etchings, and lithographs, among them Maya Clothed and Maya Nude (1798-1800); Caprichos (1799-82); The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808 (1814); Disasters of War (1810-20); and The Black Paintings (1820-23). |
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