Majas on a Balcony (Spanish: Las majas en el balcón) is an oil painting by Francisco Goya, completed between 1808 and 1814, while Spain was engaged in...
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currently held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The painting, inspired by Majas on the Balcony by Francisco Goya, was created at the same time and with the same...
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The Naked Maja or The Nude Maja (Spanish: La maja desnuda [la ˈmaxa ðesˈnuða]) is an oil-on-canvas painting made around 1797–1800 by the Spanish artist...
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Saturn Devouring His Son (redirect from Saturno Devorando a Su Hijo)
purchased a house on the banks of Manzanares near Madrid called Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man). It was a two-story house which was named after a previous...
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1819, Goya purchased a house named Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man) on the banks of the Manzanares near Madrid. It was a small two-story house...
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La maja vestida (English translation: The Clothed Maja) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1800 and 1807 by the Spanish Romantic painter and...
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Aquelarre) is a 1798 oil painting on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Today it is held in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid. It depicts a Witches'...
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both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two-story house outside Madrid that was called...
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Francisco Goya (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
without pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning. The identity of the Majas is uncertain. The most popularly cited models are the Duchess of Alba, with...
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believe this is a genuine Goya Possibly by a follower of Goya Also known as The charge of the Mamelukes Also known as The shootings on Prince Pío hill...
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Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) is a series of seven tapestries made in the South Netherlands around 1495–1505...
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symbolize ignorance. The title of the print, as marked on the front of the desk, is typically read as a proclamation of Goya's adherence to the values of the...
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Yard with Lunatics (Spanish: Corral de locos) is a small oil-on-tinplate painting completed by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya between 1793 and 1794...
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Witches' Flight (category Oil on canvas paintings)
Witches in the Air) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1798 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It was part of a series of six paintings related...
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Skarsgård, and was filmed on location in Spain during late 2005. The film was written, produced, and performed in English although it is a Spanish production...
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The Second of May 1808 (category Oil on canvas paintings)
angry response. Instead of dispersing, the crowd turned on the charging Mamelukes, resulting in a ferocious melee. Goya was probably not present during...
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Leocadia gave birth to a third child, Rosario, in 1814. Speculation has focused on the possibility of Goya as Rosario's father. This has not been firmly established...
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equivalent of the American Academy Awards. The inaugural ceremony took place on March 17, 1987, at the Lope de Vega theatre in Madrid. From the 2nd edition...
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had been a prisoner of the French Empire, held at the Château de Valençay after being deposed in favour of Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte. A popular...
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in oils on a mahogany panel. Although a successful general, the Wellington depicted by Goya is tired from the long campaigning, having won a victory at...
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Ugolino and His Sons (Carpeaux) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Ugolino and His Sons is a marble sculpture of Ugolino made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris during the 1860s. It depicts the story of Ugolino from Dante's...
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A Procession of Flagellants (Procesión de disciplinantes, or Procesión de flagelantes) is an oil-on-panel painting produced by Francisco de Goya between...
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the viewer with a penetrating gaze. She is dressed in a full-length French style flowing white dress – far more elegant than the Maja style of the 1797...
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Quinta del Sordo (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
was an extensive estate and country house situated on a hill in the old municipality of Carabanchel on the outskirts of Madrid. The house is best known...
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a ground-breaking, archetypal image of the horrors of war. Although it draws on many sources from both high and popular art, The Third of May marks a...
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self-portrait, in addition to its simply resplendent beauty, is a clear and articulate commentary on the Romantic artist. Goya finds it unnecessary to look at...
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1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge, a watercolor portrait miniature on a piece of ivory. Depicting only the artist's bared breasts...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Rousseau, The Repast of the Lion, c. 1907 Pablo Picasso, The Oil Mill (Moulin à huile), 1909 Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27, Garden of Love II, 1912...
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which Goya purchased in 1819. In 1819 Goya purchased a property for c. 60,000 Reales, set on seventeen acres of land south west of Madrid, in close...
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ecclesiastical authorities discovered his paintings The Naked Maja and The Clothed Maja among the seized property of Manuel Godoy. In both instances he...
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