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The Spanish composer Enrique Granados wrote a suite for solo piano in 1911 based on Goya's paintings called Goyescas, and later wrote an opera of the same name based on the suite. Spanish author Fernando Arrabal 's novel The Burial of the Sardine was inspired by Goya's painting.
Portrait of Goya by Vicente López Portaña, c. 1826. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was a Spanish artist, now viewed as one of the leaders of the artistic movement Romanticism. He produced around 700 paintings, 280 prints, and several thousand drawings.
Francis Goya (born François Edouard Weyer; 16 May 1946) is a Belgian classical guitar player and producer. He has recorded fifty albums, many of which have reached gold or platinum status. He has recorded fifty albums, many of which have reached gold or platinum status.
Goya was influenced by Neoclassicism, which was gaining favor over the Rococo style at the time. This particular painting is considered classicism for its relation to everyday life. Around this same time, Goya began painting portraits for many of the Spanish Monarchs. This was his first popular success that ultimately changed his career.
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 ...
The film won Pierre-Louis Thévenet the Goya Award for Best Art Direction at the 14th Goya Awards. It references various works by Goya. It references various works by Goya. There is a scene in which the Duchess, played by Maribel Verdú , is painted in a pose reminiscent of the Black Duchess , her costume featuring a black mantilla.
The etchings were made over a tumultuous quarter-century between 1799 and 1823, when Goya was a mature artist, and the vast Spanish empire was coming apart at the seams. He started them in his ...
Goyescas, Op. 11, subtitled Los majos enamorados (The Gallants in Love), is a piano suite written in 1911 by Spanish composer Enrique Granados. It was inspired by the work of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The piano pieces have not been authoritatively associated with any particular paintings with two exceptions: