"Among artists of the past," wrote Jonathan Brown in the New Republic, "none has greater immediacy than Goya." Brown put such immediacy down to the fact that, "like all universal artists, his genius i...
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Francisco de Paula José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was Spain's greatest painter and printmaker during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a wayward genius who prefigured in his art the...
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Throughout the history of art, artists have been influencing one another. The appearance of art changes when one person takes an idea, and adds a slight twist to it. However, the evolution of art is...
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Francisco de Goya was born on March 30th, 1746, in Fuentetodos, a village in northern Spain. After Goya was born, him and his family moved to Saragossa, where Goya's father worked as a gilder. When F...
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