Goya Francisco

Part of the series “Caprichos”, consisting of 80 works, is this composition. Sleeping among the instruments, the artist is surrounded by monsters, which symbolize ignorance and other vices of society.

“Portrait of the Countess of Carpio, the Marquis de la Solana” was written in the early 80’s of the XVIII century. The female figure is transmitted by a dark silhouette

The portrait of Don Andrés del Perala was painted by the artist in the second half of the 90s, about ten years before the portrait of Donna Isabel. In this

The painting was conceived as a steam room to the portrait of Donna’s husband Isabel de Porsel, Don Antonio de Porsel. The couple were close friends of Goya, and he,

Although this portrait was painted by Goya shortly after the death of the husband of the Duchess of Alba, her black outfit is more romantic than mourning. This dress was

The painting is written in a characteristic Goya expressive manner and filled with characters. She has a complicated multifaceted composition, which does not even allow you to immediately grasp the

The wife of the weak-willed Charles IV, on the contrary, was known as a strong and power-hungry woman. What can not be said about high morale. It was in the

“The Sabbat of Witches” – one of the images included in the series of “Dark Pictures”. The canvas was written during the hardest period of the artist’s life, when he

The woman on whom Goya married in 1773, was named Josef Bayeu. She was the sister of the famous artist Francisco Bayeu. There is little about her, there is not

This painting no one ordered the artist, he wrote it for his own pleasure. She portrayed romery – a folk festival in honor of St. Isidro, the patron saint of

Another work for the Duke of Osuna, like the Capricios series, depicts scenes of witchcraft. Three figures in hats grabbed a naked man in the air. In addition to them,

The Spanish painter and engraver Francisco de Goya is one of the first and most outstanding masters of the art of the Romantic era. As a court painter of the

The leading Spanish painter of the late 18th, early 19th century, Francisco de Goya distinguished himself by etching, engraving, creating tapestries and paintings, becoming the leading artist of the royal

Genius Goya was a unique phenomenon in the Spanish art of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, which he exalted to the grandeur of former times. Creativity of

Goya was a skilled draftsman. Up to now, about a thousand of his drawings. Almost half of them are stored in the Madrid Prado Museum. Drawings of Goya are made