The Art of Goya

Discover Francisco Goya as the master of Spanish art through an introduction to his life, self-portrait, early works, and his evolving portraiture exploring human nature.

Explore Goya, the Spanish painter and printmaker known as the last of the old masters and the first of the migrants, famed for portraits and chronicling his era.

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's early Rome studies produced neoclassical works like the sacrifice to the vestal virgins, while Madrid events and Velázquez influence sparked his lifelong interest in Spain's social life.

Goya begins independent commissions under his brother-in-law. He paints frescoes and cartoons for tapestries, including the adoration of the name of God, the kite, and the parasol.

Explore Goya’s etchings and copper plate prints, satirizing church power and social inequality with light and dark tones in a set of 80 prints, the sleep of reason produces monsters.

Goya's reclining nude, inspired by Velázquez, is described as his best known painting, sparking controversy with the church and the Inquisition as questions about its patronage remain unanswered.

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.

Explore Goya's disasters of war, a set of 82 prints (1810–1820) that portray brutal scenes of violence, oppression, and the looming inquisition.

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

The lecture explores Goya's late works, highlighting etchings and surrealist precursors and themes of empire and inquisition, with striking images such as a woman on a branch.

Examine Goya's 33 prints from 1816, revealing the history of bullfighting through beveled copper plates, cape traditions, and cultural ambivalence about the practice.

Goya endures Spain's war poverty while painting intimate portraits and the dramatic Black Paintings, including the Witch's Sabbath, Last Communion, and somber scenes shaped by illness and deafness.

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.

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