The Colossus, one of the world’s best-known paintings, has again been attributed to the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, with the Museo del Prado in Madrid quietly restoring his name to the work 13 ...
If you’re exhausted by all the criminality, outrageous racism, gaslighting, antediluvian misogyny, pedestrian hatreds, cruel religiosities, fascist violence, rank cowardice and power-mongering greed ...
Four significant paintings were donated to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in 2023. They fit the collection like a glove, while expanding its purview as well. The most recent ...
It is a sad commentary on humanity that 200 years after Francisco Goya y Lucientes created his second collection of prints, “The Disasters of War,” the subject remains so relevant. It is a sad ...
The degradation of a tortured prisoner depicted in this 1815 etching still hasn’t left us You can just make out a protruding nose and a single, harrowed eye amid the dark gloom of the man’s bowed head ...
The 20th-century French novelist André Malraux proclaimed that "modern art begins" with the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Born in 1746 in the Spanish province of Aragon, the fiercely ...
Francisco Goya was born near Zaragoza in 1746, the son of a gilder. Sent, aged 14, to study under local artist José Luzán, he later went on to Madrid, where he was taught by the Bohemian-German Anton ...