The Art of Goya

Trace Goya's early training across baroque foundations, Rome study, and the rococo shift, highlighting Mengs's influence, naturalistic portraiture, and allegorical works such as peace and justice.

Goya, court painter to Charles IV, navigates a turbulent Napoleonic era in his sleep painting circa 1800, highlighting dramatic light, dark contrasts, and warm tones in intimate portraiture.

Explore Goya's war-time works from the black paintings and prison scenes to the colossus, depicting the Napoleonic and Peninsular wars, with Rembrandt and Caravaggio influences.

Goya paints a turbulent era during the French and British occupation (1811–1815), blending portraits and battlefield scenes to reveal power, culture, and resistance.

Explore Goya's drawings from album H 1824–1828, including quick black chalk sketches and allegories of war and evil, plus bullfighting scenes such as riding a bull, with notes on attribution.

Goya remains a hard-working, productive artist to the end, leaves the court painter role, seeks health resorts in Bordeaux, and dies in France, with grandson Mariano Goya connected to bullfighting.