Francisco Goya painted 'Saturn Devouring His Son' on the walls of his country villa. The mysterious image has haunted art ...
The romantic brushstrokes and stark realities in Francisco Goya’s The Third of May (1814), a pivotal canvas depicting the public executions of Spanish freedom fighters by French troops, solidified its ...
Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these ...
Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote ...
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 ...
Goya’s Ghosts is a 2006 historical drama film set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. The film centers around Francisco Goya, a famous painter caught in a web of passion and betrayal when ...
“The mobocratic spirit.” Abraham Lincoln’s phrase could hardly be more apt. Nearly a year ago I stood inside Madrid’s Prado Museum staring at a spectacularly fearsome work of art. The small brushy ...