There were something like 200 portraits done in his lifetime. The haunting Goya portrait of 1812-1814 (main picture), altered several times to allow for more decorations on his uniform, was painted in ...
During a visit to Madrid one day around the turn of the century, Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer of Manhattan bustled into the hotel room of her millionaire husband and airily announced that she was going out to ...
SAN DIEGO — “Goya’s Portraits” is a lesson in the virtues of small. The exhibition includes just 10 paintings and one diminutive drawing -- a charcoal self-portrait -- by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) ...
The most devastating insults land with precision. Such was the case for a 19th-century critic who skewered Francisco Goya’s Carlos IV of Spain and His Family (1800–1801), in a single line: “It looks ...
The heist was daring, the ransom negotiations bizarre, and the trial surreal—part Monty Python, part Perry Mason, part Ally McBeal, and yet critical to legal history. The only successful theft ever ...
It is a sad commentary on humanity that 200 years after Francisco Goya y Lucientes created his second collection of prints, “The Disasters of War,” the subject remains so relevant. It is a sad ...
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