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Museo del Grabado de Goya, in Fuendetodos. The Museo del Grabado de Goya (English: Goya Engraving Museum) is an art museum dedicated to the engravings made by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, in Fuendetodos, near Zaragoza, Spain. It is the only museum in the world dedicated entirely to Goya's artworks.
According to William M. Ivins Jr., the first official Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "every intaglio print in which the lines are laid in a formal manner is an engraving, and every one in which they are laid freely is an etching," [16] thus clarifying that the series Los Caprichos falls under the broad category of "etchings".
The social and political turmoil of today resonates in a mammoth, extraordinary show of Francisco de Goya's celebrated etchings at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
Casa natal de Goya, in Fuendetodos. The Casa natal de Goya (English: Goya's Birthplace) is an historical house museum in Fuendetodos, Aragon, where renowned artist Francisco Goya was born in 1746. It is, since 1989, a house museum, that preserves reproductions of artworks and documents from Goya, and also objects and furniture of Aragonese style.
The Junta of the Philippines by Goya, 1815, 320 x 433 cm. The Goya Museum (French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France. [1] The museum was originally established in 1840 and was named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya since it has been specialised in hispanic art, since 1947.
Los disparates (The Follies), also known as Proverbios or Sueños , is a series of prints in etching and aquatint, with retouching in drypoint and engraving, created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya between 1815 and 1823.
Los Caprichos lack an organized and coherent structure, but they have important thematic nuclei. The most prevalent themes are: the superstition around witches, which predominates after Capricho No. 43 and that serves to express ideas about evil in a tragicomic way; the life and behavior of friars; erotic satire relating to prostitution and the role of the matchmaker; and to a lesser extent ...
Quinta del Sordo (English: Villa of the Deaf One), or Quinta de Goya, was an extensive estate and country house situated on a hill in the old municipality of Carabanchel on the outskirts of Madrid. The house is best known as the home of Francisco de Goya , where he painted 14 murals known as the Black Paintings . [ 3 ]