Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes , as known as Francisco Goya (1741-1828), is considered as the one of the greatest Spanish painter and printmaker of the late 18th century. He traveled to different places through his long career and was extremely valued as an artist at his time. With being an successful and valued painter, Goya jumped through different styles as he was growing as an artist and eventually became pessimistic in some way. He moved Italy at the age of 14 and began to study with José Luzán Martínez. His contribution to Spanish art was huge, and to a great extent he promoted the Spanish enlightenment. His work were relatively romantic later in career, expressing the relationship between naturalism and ideal beauty, but some of his pieces (like Black Painting series) showed an opposite approach in which loneliness and fear, the feeling of struggle and desperate were strongly expressed.
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| Sacrifice to Pan, 1771. |
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