In this drawing and the They can still serve (D04244), Goya presents one of his harshest criticisms. At first glance, both seem to depict village people picking up the war wounded and carrying them to [+]
Preparatory drawing for Disasters of War, 20, Get them well, and on to the next.In this series Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the Spanish Peninsular War (1808-14) th [+]
Here Goya bears witness to the prominence of the role of picadors in bullfights, showing both the triumphs and the calamities they face due to the risk inherent in their activity. He concentrates the [+]
Preparatory drawing for Disasters of War, 20, Get them well, and on to the next.In this series Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the Spanish Peninsular War (1808-14) th [+]
Goya’s Album C exemplifies the complexity of his work. Made during the Peninsular War and the posterior repression under the reign of Ferdinand VII, it addresses subjects linked to many facets of that [+]
The last part of Album C -drawings 119 through 131- consists of a group of images that present clergy of both sexes with a degree of irony emphasized by the titles that Goya wrote on each page. Critic [+]
A preparatory drawing for Disasters of War, 16, They make use of them.In this series of prints executed between 1810 and 1814 Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the Span [+]
The title of his drawings carries over from the previous drawing of the series, entitled The Daring of Martincho in the Ring at Saragossa. Martincho rose to fame with his daring passes. This compositi [+]
Goya’s Album C exemplifies the complexity of his work. Made during the Peninsular War and the posterior repression under the reign of Ferdinand VII, it addresses subjects linked to many facets of that [+]
Goya’s Album C exemplifies the complexity of his work. Made during the Peninsular War and the posterior repression under the reign of Ferdinand VII, it addresses subjects linked to many facets of that [+]
In this drawing and the following one (D04245), Goya presents one of his harshest criticisms. At first glance, both seem to depict village people picking up the war wounded and carrying them to the ho [+]
Disasters of War, 59, What is the use of a cup?. Goya devoted many of the prints in the first part of The Disasters of War to scenes in which the civilian population is the innocent victim of soldiers [+]
More has been written about Nothing. The Event will tell (number 69 of the Disasters of War), than about any other preparatory drawing for the Disasters. Its cryptic character has sparked a variety of [+]
Disasters of War, 61, Perhaps they are of another breed. In a densely atmospheric urban setting barely sketched in with light architectural references, Goya shows the path from hunger to death: those [+]
Although Goya had already shown an interest in lithography while in Madrid, it was in Bordeaux tht he fully explored the expressive possibilities of this new medium. In November 1825, a year after his [+]
Rather than simply reflecting concrete events, Goya sought to capture their essence. He therefore placed himself alongside the action, taking part in a way that no previous artist ever had. This expla [+]
Disparates, 6, Cruel Folly. The title of the plate comes from an artist’s proof now at the Museo Lázaro Galdeano in Madrid. Before this state proof with the handwritten title, Cruel Folly came [+]
Disparates, 10, The Kidnapping Horse, closely resembles Folly of Fear (D04274) in its technique, with light reddish washes to define the wooded background and more intense washes for the figures. Its [+]