Vicente López Portaña. Image source · Public domain
The people behind the art
30 March 1746 to 16 April 1828
Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker whose career extended from royal tapestry designs and court portraiture to images of war, repression and unsettling fantasy. Born in Fuendetodos, he trained in Zaragoza and Madrid and became First Painter to Charles IV in 1799. He spent his final years in Bordeaux.
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Artist: Francisco Goya
Goya painted Saturn devouring one of his children on the wall of his own house between 1820 and 1823. This short tour looks at the myth behind the scene, the fear the Prado sees in it, and the strange intimacy of a mural made for no outside audience.
Artist: Francisco Goya
A Crucifixion attributed to Francisco Goya, considered through what is visible and what the supplied source can, and cannot, establish.
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