Francisco Goya
Painting, Visual Artist
1746 – 1828
Who was Francisco Goya?
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was court painter to the Spanish Crown; throughout the Peninsular War he remained in Madrid, where he painted the portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, pretender to the Spanish throne, and documented the war in the masterpiece of studied ambiguity known as the Desastres de la Guerra. Through his works he was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era. The subversive imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of artists of later generations, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.
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- Born
- Mar 30, 1746
Fuendetodos - Also known as
- Francisco de Goya
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Parents
- Spouses
- Josefa Bayeu
(1773/07/25 - 1812) - Leocadia Weiss
( - 1828/04/15)
- Josefa Bayeu
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Spain
- Profession
- Lived in
- Fuendetodos
- Zaragoza
- Madrid
- Italy
- Died
- Apr 16, 1828
Bordeaux
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on July 23, 2013
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