"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 is ample enough to accommodate the shifts of taste and ideology that come with every new age." Brown further noted that there are many different Goyas: "Goya the Romantic, Goya the Populist, Goya the Surrealist, Goya the Marxist." A Charles Dickens of the two-dimensional arts, Francisco Goya could represent the highest and the lowest that society offered, in unsparing detail. His court portraits and scenes of everyday life can be set off against his scathing pictorial criticisms of society as seen in his etchings of the Los Caprichos series; his bucolic cartoon paintings for the royal tapestry workshop are balanced by the Disasters of War and The Third of May, both of which illustrate only...