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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Fuendetodos (Aragon), Spain
Archival Overview
Visionary Spanish master whose fearless art chronicled royal vanity (Charles IV), the brutal horrors of war (The Third of May 1808), and the terrifying dark phantoms of the human subconscious in his Black Paintings.
Biographical Record
Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) bridges the Old Masters and modernism. Appointed First Court Painter to King Charles IV of Spain in 1789, Goya painted brilliant, psychologically piercing royal portraits. Struck completely deaf by a mysterious illness in 1792, his art turned inward, biting, and satyrical in his print series Los Caprichos (1799).
Witnessing the atrocities of Napoleon's invasion of Spain, Goya created The Third of May 1808 (1814)—an unsparing anti-heroic masterpiece of mechanical firing squads and helpless civilian victims that birthed modern war art. In his final years at the 'Quinta del Sordo', in total isolation, he painted the terrifying Black Paintings (including Saturn Devouring His Son) directly onto the plaster walls of his house.
Key Life Milestones
Painting of The Third of May 1808
Completed the epochal anti-war masterpiece immortalizing the Spanish uprising against Napoleonic troops.
Creation of the Black Paintings (Pinturas Negras)
Painted fourteen terrifying visionary murals, including Saturn Devouring His Son, on the walls of his home.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialBordeaux, France