Art · 1746–1828
Born: 30 March 1746 · Died: 16 April 1828 · Age at death: 82
Francisco Goya died aged 82. He was born on 30 March 1746 and died on 16 April 1828.
Spanish painter and printmaker of court portraits, The Third of May 1808 and the haunting Black Paintings
Did you know?A severe illness in midlife left him completely deaf, which profoundly influenced the darker and more imaginative style of his later work.
Goya was both a court painter to Spanish kings and one of the fiercest critics of power in the history of art. His portraits of the royal family are strikingly honest, sometimes almost unflattering. His prints The Disasters of War show the brutality of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain with a rawness that still shocks today. The Third of May 1808, depicting the execution of Spanish civilians, became a model for later anti-war paintings, including Picasso's Guernica. Many see him as a bridge between the old masters and modern art.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish:; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Spanish painter, born 1746
Francisco Goya was born in Fuendetodos on 30 March 1746.
He was court painter to the Spanish kings.
He painted The Third of May 1808.
He went deaf in 1793.
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Did you know?His Black Paintings were painted directly on the walls of his house.
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