GOYA 446 ESSENTIAL PAINTINGS: The nearly complete painted works with commentary and current locations Kindle Edition

Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) occupies a unique place in the history of art. Painter of kings and common people, chronicler of his time and visionary of the future, his work stands among the most powerful and modern achievements of European painting.This book gathers 446 essential paintings by Goya, representing almost the entirety of his known pictorial production. All works are accompanied by artistic commentary and by the current Location:of each painting in museums and collections around the world.Goya’s artistic career spans more than fifty years and reflects an extraordinary evolution.A decisive moment came with the tapestry cartoons painted for the Spanish court. In these works Goya discovered the vitality of everyday life: popular festivities, games, rural scenes and landscapes. In 1789 Goya was appointed court painter, and in 1799 he became First Court Painter. During this period he produced some of the most penetrating portraits in European art. In these works he sought not merely to represent social status but to capture the psychological character of each sitter.After a severe illness in 1793 that left him deaf, Goya’s art entered a more profound and dramatic phase. His brushwork became freer, his imagination darker, and his vision more introspective.During the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, his paintings reflected the tragedy of war and human suffering. Works such as The Second of May and The Third of May remain among the most powerful artistic denunciations of violence ever created.In his final years, culminating in the famous Black Paintings, Goya achieved an unprecedented expressive freedom. His art anticipated Romanticism, Expressionism, and even modern twentieth-century painting.This volume focuses exclusively on Goya’s paintings. It does not include his graphic works —such as The Caprichos, The Disasters of War, or The Tauromaquia— which are the subject of other publications by the same editor.More than two centuries after his death, Goya’s paintings still speak with remarkable intensity. They reveal beauty, violence, joy, fear and the contradictions of the human condition.To explore Goya’s paintings is therefore not only to travel through art history, but also through the history of humanity itself. Read more