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BIRTH
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was born in 1746 into a family of medium social status in Zaragoza, which that year had moved to the small village of Fuendetodos, located about forty kilometers south of the capital, while the city was being rehabilitated. house where they lived. -
GOYA IN MADRID
Since his arrival in Madrid to work at the court, Goya has access to the painting collections of the kings, and the art of Aragonism has in the second half of the 1770s in reference to Velázquez. The painting of the latter had been praised in 1780 in a speech given by Jovellanos at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in which he praised the naturalism of the Sevillian master in the face of the excessive idealization of neoclassical defenders of a pretended Ideal Beauty. -
WON SECOND PRIZE IN A PATINTING
In 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma. That year he returned to Zaragoza and painted parts of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar (including Adoration of the Name of God), a cycle of frescoes for the monastic church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei, and the frescoes of the Sobradiel Palace. -
THE PARASOL
The Parasol (also known as El Quitasol) is one of a cartoon series of oil on linen paintings made by the painter Francisco Goya. -
CROWN PRICE DON LUIS
In 1783, the Count of Floridablanca, favorite of Charles III of Spain, commissioned Goya to paint his portrait. He became friends with Crown Prince Don Luis, spending two summers painting portraits of both the Infante and his family.[22] During the 1780s, his circle of patrons grew to include the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, the king and other notable people of the kingdom whom he painted. In 1786, Goya was given a salaried position as painter to Charles III. -
CRITICS
Although he was famous, he suffered from many critics as well. He had commissioned nobility portraits. Later he made the society providing him with critics. He also suffered from the problem of politics within his era. -
LA MAJA DESNUDA
La Maja Desnuda (La maja desnuda) was "the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art" without pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning. -
FRANCISCO GOYA START USING CATS
He starts using cats in his paintings. -
CHARLES IV
Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya who began work on this painting in 1800 and completed it in the summer of 1801. -
PENINSULAN WAR
The French army invaded Spain in 1808, leading to the Peninsular War of 1808–1814. The extent of Goya's involvement with the court of the "Intruder king", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known; he painted works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting. -
WIFE OF GOYA
Josefa Bayeu y Subias ( ? - 1812) was the sister of artist Francisco Bayeu and wife of artist Francisco Goya.[1] Francisco de Goya gave her the nickname "Pepa". She bore seven children to him, only one of whom lived past infancy and into adulthood. His name was Xavier,[2] born on 2 December 1784. The artworks below are by Goya. -
WEISS ZORRILLA
Maria del Rosario Weiss Zorrilla (2 October 1814 – 31 July 1843) a Spanish painter and engraver; best known for portraits. She was the goddaughter of Francisco de Goya and lived with him during his final years when her mother was his maid. Over seventy of her drawings, preserved at the Hispanic Society of America, were once attributed to Goya but, in 1956, the art historian José López-Rey demonstrated conclusively that they were hers.[1] -
SATURNO DEVOURING HIS SON
Saturn Devouring His Son is the name given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. -
QUINTA DEL SORDO
Record of Goya's later life are relatively scant, and ever politically aware, he suppressed a number of his works from this period, working instead in private. -
BORDEAUX LEOCADILLA ZORRILLA
Leocadilla Weiss Zorrilla the artist's maid, younger by 35 years, and a distant relative,[54] lived with and cared for Goya after Bayeu's death. She stayed with him in his Quinta del Sordo villa until 1824 with her daughter Rosario.[55] Leocadia was probably similar in features to Goya's first wife Josefa Bayeu, to the point that one of his well-known portraits bears the cautious title of Josefa Bayeu (or Leocadia Weiss). -
DIED
After a worsening at the beginning of the month, Goya dies at two o'clock on the morning of April 16, 1828
