Crisis becomes him. “Goya: A Portrait of the Artist” (Princeton), a biography by the American art historian Janis A. Tomlinson, affords me a newly informed chance to reflect on an artist of ...

In a famous print from the Caprichos, Goya intimates that similar phantoms inhabit his own head. A man, apparently the artist, has slumped over a desk that reads, “The sleep of reason engenders ...

In a more abstract way–music being an abstract art anyway–so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual, was Goya–and there was ...

Goya’s unflinching cycle of drawings, The Disasters of War, are the most searing works of art ever to deal with conflict, argues Alastair Sooke. It is one of the ironies of art history that the ...

Goya’s handiwork shows in every stroke.” The Big Time. Brown has given Los Angeles museumgoers a taste of the excitement a hard-driving director can give art. By originating such outstanding ...

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was scathing about them ... Among them were Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, an art collector and writer; Agustín Argüelles, a liberal politician active in debates ...

One story from 1795 tells of how the Duchess requested that Goya put her make-up on for her. The artist described the experience in a letter to a friend as being a greater one than making art, ...

The 20th-century French novelist André Malraux proclaimed that "modern art begins" with the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Born in 1746 in the Spanish province of Aragon, the fiercely ...

Could a rare autoimmune disease have left Francisco de Goya deaf for the second half of his life? Often referred to as the father of modern art, Goya was struck by a mysterious illness in the ...