The Art of Francisco Goya

The Spanish artist Francisco de Goya is assessed one of the pivotal precursors of modern art. His portraiture, figure drawing and printmaking noted important historical occasions in late 18th/early 19th hundred Spain. He is best known for his brazen emotive paintings of violence especially those recording the Napoleonic invasion of Spain. His majority notable works include The Nude Maja (c.1800), The Clothed Maja (c.1803), The Third of May 1808 (1814) and Saturn Devouring his Son (1819), all housed at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Goya was born in 1746, in Zaragoza, a small village in to the north Spain. A minority years late the family shifted to Saragossa and his father gained employment as a gilder. (John, 179)

At the age of about 14, Goya went to labor as an apprentice to a local painter called Jose Luzan whoever taught him drawing and as was customary at the time, the young Goya consumed hours copying prints of Old Masters. At the age of 17 Goya shifted to Madrid and came beneath the impact of Venetian artist and printmaker Giambattista Tiepolo and painter Antonio Raphael Mengs. In 1770, he shifted to Rome where he won second prize in a fine art painting contest organized via the City of Parma. His first major commission came in 1774 to plan 42 patterns which were to be accustomed decorate the stone walls of El Escorial and the Palacio Real de El Pardo, the fresh residents of the Spanish Monarchy. This labor brought him to the attention of the Spanish Monarchy which eventually resulted in him being appointed Painter to the King in 1786.

Goya was a eager witness of humanity, and he was constantly making draws of everyday life. However after contracting a fever in 1792 Goya was retired permanently deaf via ...