Francisco Goya
At age 14 he studied under the painter José Luzán, copying prints for four years.[1] Goya submitted entries for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1763 and 1766 but was denied entrance.[2] He returned to Zaragoza and painted elements of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar.[3] He was appointed court painter to Charles IV in 1789 and became First Court Painter the following year.[4]
An undiagnosed illness left Goya deaf between late 1792 and early 1793.[5]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Born
- 30 March 1746
- Birthplace
- Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain
- Died
- 16 April 1828
- Children
- 8
- Field
- Painting
- drawing
- printmaking
- Movement
- Romanticism
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What the cited sources add
The Frick Collection exhibition described Goya's 1824 portrait of María Martínez de Puga as radical in its simplicity.[6] That exhibition was the first in the United States to concentrate exclusively on Goya's final phase in Bordeaux from 1824 to 1828.[6] The Frick account states Goya absorbed liberal ideas through contact with his sitters.[6] A catastrophic illness in 1792–93 left Goya totally deaf for the rest of his life, according to the Frick exhibition.[6]
The Frick notes Goya commemorated the Peninsular War with his print series The Disasters of War.[6]
References
- Wikipedia, "Francisco Goya" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Connell (2004), 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francisco Goya" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hagen & Hagen, 317 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francisco Goya" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Baticle (1994), 74 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francisco Goya" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hagen & Hagen, 29. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francisco Goya" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The Sleep of Reason Linda Simon (www.worldandi.com). Retrieved 2 December 2006. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "The Frick Collection: Exhibitions", Frick.org. facts only, no text reused. frick.org
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