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birth of francisco de goya
He was born in 1746 into a family of medium social status in Zaragoza, which that year had moved to the village of Fuendetodos, located about forty kilometers south of the capital, while rehabilitating the house where they lived. His father, Braulio José Goya and Franque and his mother Grace Lucientes Salvador -
his house
The house was in the street of the Alhóndiga no. 15 and belonged to Miguel Lucientes, his maternal uncle. He was the penultimate of six children; his younger brother, Mariano, was born in 1750. The year after his birth they returned to Zaragoza, although the Goyas always maintained contact with the hometown of the future painter, as revealed by his older brother, Tomás, who followed the trade of the father, he installed his workshop there in 1789. -
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live of francisco de goya
He was a Spanish painter and engraver. His work includes easel and mural painting, engraving and drawing. His style evolved from the Rococo, through Neoclassicism, to pre-Romanticism. -
when is was ten
When Francisco was just over ten years old, his primary studies were probably begun in the school of Santo Tomás de Aquino of the Pious Schools of Zaragoza, the family went through economic difficulties that could force the very young Goya to help with his work to overcome the crisis. Perhaps this fact explains that his entry into the Academy of Drawing of Zaragoza, directed by José Luzán, did not occur until 1759, an age (thirteen years) somewhat late for what was usual. -
san fernando arts prize
Goya, in any case, was a painter whose learning progressed slowly and his work of maturity was revealed late. It is not strange that he did not get the first prize in the third category painting contest organized by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1763 - consisting of a pencil copy of the statue of a Silenus -
transfer to spain
In December of 1764 a cousin of Bayeu married an aunt of Goya. It is very likely that the painter of Fuendetodos moved to the capital of Spain at this time in search of protection and new teacher, as indicated by the fact that Goya appeared in Italy in 1771 as a disciple of Bayeu. -
he got a scholarship
Three years later, this time in the first class call, he tried again in order to obtain a training scholarship in Rome, again without success: he produced an oil painting entitled The Empress Marta and Alfonso the Wise, but won the contest his future brother-in-law, Ramón Bayeu. -
travel to Italia
After the two frustrated attempts to obtain material support to carry out the obligatory trip to study the Italian teachers in situ, Goya, with his own resources, left for Rome, Venice, Bologna and other Italian cities, where he studied the work of Guido Reni, Rubens, Paolo Veronese or Rafael, among other great painters. -
meet Giovanni Battista Piranesi
He left in March or April 1770 and, after passing through Turin, Milan and Pavia, settled in Rome, at the home of the Polish painter Tadeusz Kuntze. During his stay he met the engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose work influenced him powerfully. -
the contest of the Alps
In April 1771 he sent his victorious Hannibal contemplates for the first time Italy from the Alps to the painting contest with a compelling theme convened by the Parma Academy. The proposed reason, of historical genre, took its argument from a sonnet by Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni. -
his return to spain
Already in the middle of 1771, Goya returned to Spain, perhaps urged by the illness of his father - in whose house he settled - or by having received the order of the Board of Factory of Pilar to make a mural for the vault of the coreto the chapel of the Virgin -
goya francisco wedding
On July 25, 1773, he interrupted the work in the monastery to travel to Madrid in order to marry Francisco Bayeu's sister, Josefa Bayeu. -
At the end of the year
At the end of that year, possibly thanks to the influence of his brother-in-law, Goya was called by Mengs to the court to work as a painter of cardboard for tapestries. -
names of children
Eusebio Ramón, born in 1775; Vicente Anastasio, 1777; María del Pilar, 1779; Francisco de Paula, 1780; Hermenegilda, 1782; and Francisco Javier, 1784. -
trip to Madrid
On January 3, 1775, as noted in the Italian Notebook, he began the trip to Madrid, where he began a stage that would lead him to a social promotion as a real painter, not exempt, however, of specific disappointments
