FRANCISO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES
The Nude Maja by FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Spanish School) IMPULSIVE, short of patience, and always suffenng from some physical ail ment, Goya was an uneven painter. When the sitter did not attract him, he knocked off a likeness as swiftly as possible, and refused to worry about the careless handling; when the …
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Don Manuel Osorio De Zuniga by FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Spanish School) WHEN Goya was born, almost a century after the death of Velasquez, the whole of Europe, led by France, was preparing a battle royal for the new freedom. He lived beyond four- score years, and from his childhood when he …
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The Execution MAY 3, 1808 by FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Spanish School) THE Duchess of Alba died in 1802-“before her beauty had faded,” Goya said; his wife died in 1804, exhausted and forlorn; his only surviving son was a weakling. The deaf old painter lived on, alone as much as possible, painting …
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