Goya Nevada
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes | Born March 30, 1746 – Died April 16, 1828

I am Goya!... I am the voice Of war, the charred wood of towns...
I am the throat of the woman whose hanged body, like a bell,
Clanged over the empty square...I am Goya!
By Andrei Voznesensky, 1958

Goya Biographical List

Articles
Biography Articles
The Black Paintings
Goya Scholarship
Goya Collecting
Goya's Paintings Methods and Subjects
Goya Exhibits
Goya Movies, Music and Media

BIOGRAPHY

bullet Timeline of Goya's Life 1746 - 1828

bullet An Introduction to Goya

bullet A Goya Biography
Museo del Prado (Copyright 1961 Ediciones Minos)

bullet The Last Days of Goya
By Thomas Craven (Copyright 1932 Thomas Craven)

THE BLACK PAINTINGS

bullet The Black Paintings
Special Section

bullet About the Black Paintings
Excerpt from Xavier de Salas book Goya, 1978.

bullet The Black Painting Controversy
Excerpt from Arthur Lubow's article in New York Magazine 2003.

GOYA SCHOLARSHIP

bullet 2006 Interview with Goya writer Dr. Sarah Symmons
An internet interview from March 2006

bullet 2004 Interview with Goya writer Dr. Sarah Symmons
An internet interview conducted in 2004

bullet Goya Author Dr. Sarah Symmons
A general page about the writer and lecturer.

bullet Professor Antonio Perales Martinez
Information about the Goya authentication expert & art restorer.

bullet Chief Goya Curator Manuela Mena at the Prado
Article translated from the Spanish that appeared in Heraldo November 2005.

bullet Robert Hughes
A page about Hughes and his book Goya, published in 2003.

GOYA COLLECTING

bullet What's Happening with Goya?
Reprinted by permission from Fundetel Magazine.

bullet Is there a Goya in your home?
Article translated from the Spanish El Semanal.

bullet Goya Micro-Signatures
Reprinted by permission from Subastas Magazine.

bullet Controversy at the Prado
Translation of the article published in the Spanish ABC Journal, Sunday May 5, 2002, pages 52 and 53. Reprinted by permission.

GOYA'S PAINTING METHODS & SUBJECTS

bullet Goya and Velasquez
Brief survey about the relationship between two of Spain's most famous painters.

bullet Milkmaid of Bordeaux
Information about the painting and the arguments of attribution

bullet Saturn
Short essay about the painting and it's meanings

bullet Goya and Mirrors
Short comparison of Goya art utilizing mirrors

bullet Caricature & Los Caprichos
Excerpt from Saturn: An Essay on Goya by Andrè Malraux, 1957

GOYA EXHIBITIONS

bullet Goya's Terrible Beauty:
What's the Source of His Enigmatic Genius?
Philedelphia Museum of Art "Goya: Another Look"
By Paul Richard, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, May 2, 1999; Page G01

bullet Review of the "Goya: Images of Women" Exhibit

GOYA MOVIES, MUSIC AND MEDIA

bullet "Goya's Ghosts " The film directed by Milos Forman

bullet "Goya in Bordeaux" The film by Carlos Saura


Goya Portrait

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Born March 30, 1746 – Died April 16, 1828. Spanish painter applauded in art history as the transition personality between the Old Masters and modern art. Court painter to the Spanish Crown, Goya pursued personal projects in paint, drawings and etchings in which he chronicled national historical events and carefully articulated a critique of Spanish, and then European ideals, society, morales and religious institutions.
    GOYA TOP PICKS:
  1. Saturn (Painting)
  2. The Black Paintings
  3. Goya Art Index
  4. Goya Biography
  5. 3rd of May (Painting)
  6. Sleep of Reason (Caprichos #43)
Goya Ephemera

"From this headlong seizure of life we should not expect a calm and refined art, nor a reflective one. Yet Goya was more than a Nietzschean egoist riding roughshod over the world to assert his supermanhood. He was receptive to all shades of feeling, and it was his extreme sensitivity as well as his muscular temerity that actuated his assaults on the outrageous society of Spain." From Thomas Craven's essay on Goya from MEN OF ART (1931).

"...Loneliness has its limits, for Goya was not a prophet but a painter. If he had not been a painter his attitude to life would have found expression only in preaching or suicide." From Andre Malroux's essay in SATURN: AN ESSAY ON GOYA (1957).

"Goya is always a great artist, often a frightening one...light and shade play upon atrocious horrors." From Charles Baudelaire's essay on Goya from CURIOSITES ESTRANGERS (1842).

"[An] extraordinary mingling of hatred and compassion, despair and sardonic humour, realism and fantasy." From the foreword by Aldous Huxley to THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS OF GOYA (1962).

"His analysis in paint, chalk and ink of mass disaster and human frailty pointed to someone obsessed with the chaos of existence..." From the book on Goya by Sarah Symmons (1998).

"I cannot forgive you for admiring Goya...I find nothing in the least pleasing about his paintings or his etchings..." From a letter to (spanish) Duchess Colonna from the French writer Prosper Merimee (1869).

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