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The Third of May 1808 is an oil painting completed by Francisco Goya in 1814, six years after French troops executed Spanish civilians during the occupation of Madrid. It centers on an illuminated prisoner facing an anonymous firing squad, with dead bodies in the foreground and other captives awaiti...
Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting attributed to Francisco Goya and created around 1819 to 1823 as part of the Black Paintings in his house near Madrid. It depicts the mythological Saturn violently consuming one of his children, using an isolated figure, dark ground, and forceful brushwork. Orig...
Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos is a series of eighty aquatint etchings produced in Spain during 1799. These works employ fantastical and satirical imagery to challenge societal norms including religious institutions and human behavior. The prints, primarily focused on caricature, offer a critical co...
Goyescas is a suite for solo piano composed in 1911 by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados. The work consists of two books heavily inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, aiming to translate the romantic atmosphere and majas of 18th-century Madrid into richly ornamented keyboard music. It fea...
The Naked Maja is an oil painting by Francisco Goya, generally dated to around 1797 to 1800, depicting a nude woman reclining on cushions and looking directly at the viewer. Its frank representation of the body, including visible pubic hair, departed from conventions that often justified the female...
The Parasol, also known as The Sunshade, is an oil painting by Francisco Goya completed in 1777 and now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Goya designed it as a full-scale tapestry cartoon for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara, for use in the decoration of a royal residence. It shows a fash...
The Clothed Maja is an oil painting by Francisco de Goya depicting a reclining woman dressed in elaborate garments and looking directly at the viewer. It was conceived as a companion to The Naked Maja, which presents the same sitter in a closely matching pose and composition without clothing. Both w...
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