Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)

inspire a number of other major artworks, including a series by Édouard Manet and Pablo Picasso’s Massacre in Korea

efa on 25 July 1773

He failed, however, to grasp Napoleon’s true intentions, and was unaware that his new ally and co-sovereign, the former king’s son Ferdinand VII of Spain, was using the invasion merely as a ploy to

Goya travelled to Rome with a gang of bullfighters, where he worked as a street acrobat, while another describes him toiling for a Russian diplomat, and yet another concerns his falling in love with a beautiful young nun, whom he plots to abduct from her convent

Bayeu’s 1765 membership of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and directorship of the tapestry works helped Goya earn a commission for a series of tapestry cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory

clear break from convention and traditional depictions of war

On 18 February 1799, Napoleon had declared himself First Consul of the French Republic, whilst in 1804 he went so far as to crown himself Emperor

seize the Spanish parliament and throne

1763 and 1766

Goya married Bayeu’s sister Josefa