The remaining seven Black Paintings, a double portrait of the artist with the doctor who had saved his life, and a heartfelt painting of Saint Peter.
Goya
In 1819, Goya retired to live in a villa just outside the chaos of Madrid. On its walls he painted 14 nightmare visions. Here are seven of them.
Some important paintings from 1815-19, including two religious works with deep personal meaning. Goya’s paintings are now dominated by black.
In 1814, following the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya painted four works showing the uprising of 1808. One of these is now a major work of the European canon.
In 1808, Napoleon invaded his former ally, and Goya started work on his harrowing series of prints ‘The Disasters of War’. Dark visions also filled his paintings.
The period up to 1808, in which Goya painted many portraits of the rich and famous, and those who could hardly pay, and the story of a friar and a bandit.
His last royal commission before the war with France, and his most important, a macabre scene of cannibalism, and two surprising majas.
A dramatic painting of a scene from a play, a cupola in what’s now Goya’s mausoleum, a woman asleep, and an allegory of Cupid and Psyche.
Now deaf and suffering from tinnitus, Goya required a long period of recuperation from his illness. His paintings moved away from light rustic view, and became darker.
More superb cartoons to be woven into tapestries for royal palaces, including a panorama of Madrid, and humorour rural scenes.
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