Splendid reproductions of works by one of the world's greatest portraitists, among them "The Parasol," "The Duchess of Alba," "The Third of May," and "The Maja Clothed," 12 more.[...]
This is a lavish volume of prints from the series "The Disparantes, La Tauromaquia and The Bulls of Bordeaux". These etchings depict the major themes and grandeur of Goya's incomparable work: "The Bible, Human Folly, the Brutal Pageantry of Bullfighting", while the accompanying text sheds light on t[...]
80 plates of wild, grotesque monsters and caricatures. Prado manuscript included.
Francisco Goya (1746 -- 1828) has been called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. For most of his career he was court painter to the Spanish kings, yet he also produced some of the most compelling images of social unrest ever painted. Among his works are formal royal portraits [...]
The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled Reviser of Indecent Paintings. But by the age of 40, Goya had est[...]
The romantic painter Francisco de Goya is considered the most important Spanish artist of late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Goya produced paintings and prints that chronicled the history, folly and beauty of his times. Delphi's Masters of A[...]
Boken gir en kronologisk oversikt over Francisco de Goyas liv og viser særtrekk ved hans arbeider. Med ordforklaringer og register.[...]
The Old Master who ushered in the modern era. Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), one of Spain's most revered and controversial painters, is known for his intense, chilling, and sometimes grotesque paintings depicting the injustice of society with brutal sincerity. A court painter to the[...]
I 1789 blir Francisco Goya valgt til hoffmaler i Spania som skakes av voldelige politiske omveltninger, rigid religiøsitet og brutal hungersnød. Goya er svekket av sykdom og nesten stokk døv. Samtidig er han på høyden av sitt kunstneriske virke. Alle vil bli malt av ham nå. Hertuginnen av Alba[...]