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Francisco Goya
Autorretrato de Goya (1795).jpg
Self-portrait, c. 1796-97. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Born 30 March 1746
Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain
Died 16 April 1828 (aged 82)
Bordeaux, France
Nationality Spanish
Known for Painting, drawing
Movement Romanticism

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes[A] (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

He was born to a modest family in 1746 in the village of Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; the couple's life together was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages. He became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and the early portion of his career is marked by portraits commissioned by the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, as well as the Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.

Goya was a guarded man and although letters and writings survive, we know comparatively little about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him completely deaf. After 1793 his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799 Goya became Primer Pintor de Càmara, the then highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1801 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family. In 1807 Napoleon led the French army into Spain.

He remained in Madrid during the Peninsular War, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not vocalise his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his "Disasters of War" series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid period include the "Caprichos" and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health. His output culminates with the so-called "Black Paintings" of 1819-1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the "Quinta del Sordo" (house of the deaf man) where, disillusioned by domestic political and social developments he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his "La Tauromaquia" series and a number of canvases. Following a stroke which left him paralysed on his right side, and suffering failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in Spain.

Contents [hide]
1 Early years (1746-1771)
2 Visit to Italy
3 Madrid (1775-1789)
4 Court painter
5 Mid period (1793-1799)
6 Peninsular War (1808–1814)
7 Quinta del Sordo (1819-1822)
8 Bordeaux (October 1824-1828)
9 Films
10 Footnotes
11 References
12 Sources
13 External links
Early years (1746-1771)[edit]

Birth house of Francisco Goya, Fuendetodos, Zaragoza
Francisco Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, on 30 March 1746 to José Benito de Goya y Franque and Gracia de Lucientes y Salvador. The family had moved that year from the city of Zaragoza, but there is no record why; likely José was commissioned to work there.[1] They were lower middle-class, José was the son of a notary and of Basque origin, earning his living as a gilder, specialising in religious and decorative craftwork.[2] He oversaw the gilding and most of the ornamentation during the rebuilding of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (Santa Maria del Pilar), the principal cathedral of Zaragoza. Francisco was their fourth child, following his sister Rita (b. 1737), brother Tomás (b. 1739) (who was to follow in his father's trade) and second sister Jacinta (b. 1743). There were two later sons, Mariano (b. 1750) and Camilo (b. 1753).[3]

His mother's family had pretensions of nobility and the house, a modest brick cottage, was owned by her family and, perhaps fancifully, bore their crest.[4] About 1749 José and Gracia bought a home in Zaragoza and were able to return to live in the city. Although there are no surviving records it is thought that Goya may have attended the Escuelas Pías de San Antón, which offered free schooling. His education seems to have been adequate but not enlightening; he had reading, writing and numeracy, and some knowledge of the classics. According to art Critic Robert Hughes the artist "seems to have taken no more interest than a carpenter in philosophical or theological matters, and his views on painting ... were very down to earth: Goya was no theoretician.[5] At school he formed a close and lifelong friendship with fellow pupil Martin Zapater; the 131 letters Goya wrote to him from 1775 until Zapater's death in 1801 give valuable insight into Goya's early years at the court in Madrid.[1][6]

Visit to Italy[edit]
At age 14 Goya studied under the painter José Luzán, in Luzán's workshop he copied stamps for 4 years until he decided to work on his own, as he wrote later on "paint from my invention".[7] He moved to Madrid where he studied with Anton Raphael Mengs, a painter who was popular with Spanish royalty. He clashed with his master, and his examinations were unsatisfactory. Goya submitted entries for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1763 and 1766, but was denied entrance.[8]

Sacrifice to Pan, 1771. Colección José Gudiol, Barcelona
Italy at the time was the cultural capital of Europe and held all the prototypes of classical antiquity, while Spain lacked a coherent artistic direction, with all of its significant visual achievements in the past. Having failed to earn a scholarship, Goya relocated at his own expense to Rome in the old tradition of European artists stretching back to at least to Albrecht Dürer.[9] He was an unknown at the time and so the records are scant and uncertain. Early biographers have him travelling to Rome with a gang of bullfighters, where he worked as a street acrobat, or for a Russian diplomat, or fell in love with beautiful young nun whom he plotted to abduct from her convent.[10] What is more certain is two surviving mythological painting completed during the visit, a Sacrifice to Vesta and a Sacrifice to Pan, both dated 1771.[11]

Portrait of Josefa Bayeu (1747-1812)
In 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma. That year he returned to Saragossa and painted parts of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar (including Adoration of the Name of God), a cycle of frescoes in the monastic church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei, and the frescoes of the Sobradiel Palace. He studied with the Aragónese artist Francisco Bayeu y Subías and his painting began to show signs of the delicate tonalities for which he became famous.

Goya befriended Francisco Bayeu, and married Bayeu's sister Josefa (he nicknamed her "Pepa")[12] on 25 July 1773 and they had their first child, Antonio Juan Ramon Carlos, on 29 August 1774.[13]

Madrid (1775-1789)[edit]

The Parasol, 1777
The marriage and Francisco Bayeu's 1765 membership of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and directorship of the tapestry works from 1777 helped Goya earn a commission for a series of tapestry cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory. Over five years he designed some 42 patterns, many of which were used to decorate and insulate the stone walls of El Escorial and the Palacio Real del Pardo, the residences of the Spanish monarchs. While designing tapestries was neither prestigious nor well paid, his cartoons are mostly popularist in a rococo style, and Goya used them to bring himself to wider attention.[14]

The Garroted Man, before 1780. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The cartoons were not his only royal commissions, and were accompanied by a series of engravings, mostly copies after old masters such as Marcantonio Raimondi and Velázquez. Goya had a complicated relationship to the latter artist; while many of his contemporaries saw folly in Goya's attempts to copy and emulate him, he had access to a wide range of the long dead painter's works that had been contained in the royal collection.[15] Nonetheless, etching was to become a medium that the young artist was to master, a medium that was to reveal both the true depths of his imagination and his political beliefs.[16] His c 1779 etching of The Garrotted Man ("El agarrotado") was the largest work he had produced to date, and an obvious foreboding of his later "Disasters of War" series.[17]

Goya was beset by illness and his condition was used against him by the contemporary art scene, which looked jealously upon any artist seen to be rising in stature. Some of the larger cartoons, such as The Wedding, were more than 8 by 10 feet, and had proved a drain on his physical strength. Ever resourceful, Goya turned this misfortune around, claiming that his illness had allowed him the insight to produce works that were more personal and informal.[18] However, he found the format limiting, it did not allow him capture complex colour shift or texture, and was unsuited to the impasto and glazing techniques he was by then applying to his painted works. The tapestries seems as comments on human types, fashion and fads.[19]

Other works from the period include a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid, which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

Court painter[edit]

Charles IV of Spain and His Family, 1800. [B]
In 1783, the Count of Floridablanca, a favorite of Charles III of Spain, commissioned Goya to paint his portrait. He also became friends with Crown Prince Don Luis, and spent two summers with him, painting portraits of both the Infante and his family.[21] During the 1780s, his circle of patrons grew to include the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, the King and other notable people of the kingdom whom he painted. In 1786, Goya was given a salaried position as painter to Charles III.

The Family of the Infante Don Luis, 1784. Magnani-Rocca, Parma
In 1789 he was appointed court painter to Charles IV. The following year he became First Court Painter with a salary of 50,000 reales and an allowance of 500 ducats for a coach. He painted the King and the Queen, royal family pictures, a portrait of the Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy and many other nobles. His portraits are notable for their disinclination to flatter, and in the case of Charles IV of Spain and His Family, the lack of visual diplomacy is remarkable.[C] Modern interpreters view the portrait as satirical; it is thought to reveal the corruption behind the rule of Charles IV. Under his reign his wife Louisa was thought to have had the real power, and thus Goya placed her at the center of the group portrait. From the back left of the painting one can see the artist himself looking out at the viewer, and the painting behind the family depicts Lot and his daughters, thus once again echoing the underlying message of corruption and decay.

Portrait of Manuel Godoy, 1801. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Goya received commissions from the highest ranks of the Spanish nobility, including Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba (universally known simply as the "Duchess of Alba"), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos. In 1801 he painted Godoy in a commission to commemorate the victory in the brief War of the Oranges against Portugal. The two were friends, even if Goya's 1801 portrait is usually seen as satire. Yet even after Godoy's fall from grace the politician referred to the artist in warm terms. Godoy saw himself as instrumental in the publication of the Caprichos and is widely believed to have commissioned La maja desnuda.[22]

Mid period (1793-1799)[edit]
La maja desnuda, 1790-1800
La maja desnuda, 1790-1800

La maja vestida, 1800-1805
La Maja Desnuda (La maja desnuda) was "the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art" without pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning.[23] The identity of the Majas is uncertain. The most popularly cited models are the Duchess of Alba, with whom Goya was sometimes thought to have had an affair, and Pepita Tudó, mistress of Manuel de Godoy. Neither theory has been verified, and it remains as likely that the paintings represent an idealized composite.[24] The paintings were never publicly exhibited during Goya's lifetime and were owned by Godoy.[25] In 1808 all Godoy's property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile, and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as 'obscene', returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.[26] In 1798 he painted luminous and airy scenes for the pendentives and cupola of the Real Ermita (Chapel) of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Many of these depict miracles of Saint Anthony of Padua set in the midst of contemporary Madrid.

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c. 1797, 21.5 cm × 15 cm.
At some time between late 1792 and early 1793 a undiagnosed illness left Goya deaf. He became withdrawn and introspective while the direction and tone of his work changed. He began the series of aquatinted etchings, published in 1799 as the Caprichos—completed in parallel with the more official commissions of portraits and religious paintings. In 1799 Goya published a 80 Caprichos prints depicting what he described as "the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual".[27] The visions in these prints are partly explained by the caption "The sleep of reason produces monsters". Yet these are not solely bleak in nature and demonstrate the artist's sharp satirical wit, particularly evident in etchings such as Hunting for Teeth.

Goya's physical and mental breakdown seems to have happened a few weeks after the French declaration of war on Spain. A contemporary reported, "The noises in his head and deafness aren’t improving, yet his vision is much better and he is back in control of his balance."[28] These symptoms may indicate a prolonged viral encephalitis, or possibly a series of miniature strokes resulting from high blood pressure and which affected the hearing and balance centers of the brain. The triad of tinnitus, episodes of imbalance, and progressive deafness are also typical of Ménière's disease.[29] It is even possible that Goya suffered from cumulative lead poisoning, as he used massive amounts of lead white in his paintings, both as a canvas primer and as a primary color.[30][31]

Other postmortem diagnostic assessments point toward paranoid dementia due to an unknown brain trauma (perhaps resulting from the unknown illness which he reported). If this is the case, from here on we see an insidious assault on his faculties manifesting as paranoid features in his paintings, and culminating in his black paintings, especially Saturn Devouring His Sons.[32] Yet Goya could transform his personal demons into horrific and fantastic imagery that speaks universally, and allows his audience to find its own catharsis in these images.[33]

Peninsular War (1808–1814)[edit]

The Third of May 1808, 1814. Oil on canvas, 266 х 345 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid
French forces invaded Spain in 1808, leading to the Peninsular War of 1808–1814. The extent of Goya's involvement with the court of the "Intruder king", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known; he painted works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting. After the restoration of the Spanish king, Ferdinand VII, in 1814, Goya denied any involvement with the French. When his wife Josefa died in 1812, he was mentally and emotionally processing the war by painting The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808, and preparing the series of prints later known as The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra). Ferdinand VII returned to Spain in 1814 but relations with Goya were not cordial. He painted portraits of the king for a variety of organizations, but not for the king himself

The Second of May 1808 1814
During a period of convalescence during 1793–1794, Goya completed a set of eleven small pictures painted on tin. Known as Fantasy and Invention, they mark a significant change in the tone and subject matter of his art. They draw from dark and dramatic realms of fantasy nightmare. Yard with Lunatics is a horrifying, imaginary vision of loneliness, fear and social alienation. The condemnation of brutality towards prisoners (whether criminal or insane) is a subject that Goya assayed in later works[34] that focused on the degradation of the human figure.[35] It was one of the first of Goya's mid-1790s cabinet paintings, in which his earlier search for ideal beauty gave way to an examination of the relationship between naturalism and fantasy that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career.[36] He was undergoing a nervous breakdown and entering prolonged physical illness,[37] and admitted that the series was created to reflect his own self-doubt, anxiety and fear that he himself was going mad.[38] Goya wrote that the works served "to occupy my imagination, tormented as it is by contemplation of my sufferings." The series, he said, consisted of pictures which "normally find no place in commissioned works."

Although he did not make known his intention when creating the aquatint plates of the The Disasters of War in the 1810s, art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent Peninsular War and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction.[39] They were not published until 1863, 35 years after his death. It is likely that only then was it considered politically safe to distribute a sequence of artworks criticising both the French and restored Bourbons.[40]

The first 47 plates in the series focus on incidents from the war and show the consequences of the conflict on individual soldiers and civilians. The middle series (plates 48 to 64) record the effects of the famine that hit Madrid in 1811–12, before the city was liberated from the French. The final 17 reflect the bitter disappointment of liberals when the restored Bourbon monarchy, encouraged by the Catholic hierarchy, rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and opposed both state and religious reform. Since their first publication, Goya's scenes of atrocities, starvation, degradation and humiliation have been described as the "prodigious flowering of rage".[41]

A terrific hand-to-hand combat between two women and two armed soldiers. They fight with their fists and with swords.
Plate 4: Las mujeres dan valor (The women are courageous). This plate depicts a struggle between a group of civilians fighting soldiers.
A struggle between nine or more civilians including both men and women against the soldiers. Several civilians have fallen dead, a woman prepares to throw a stone at a soldier's head, while another woman rams a soldier with a long pole; he falls sword in hand, others fight at close quarters with swords and knives. A uniformed soldier to the far right fires his rifle at the civilians shooting them down.
Plate 5: Y son fieras (And they are fierce or And they fight like wild beasts). Civilians, including women, fight against soldiers with spears and rocks.
Soldiers in large fur hats, long coats and winter uniforms murder priests by running them through with their long bladed swords.
Plate 46: Esto es malo (This is bad). A monk is killed by French soldiers looting church treasures. A rare sympathetic image of clergy generally shown on the side of oppression and injustice.[42]
As the priests lay dead, soldiers make off with a large load of stolen church plate.
Plate 47: Así sucedió (This is how it happened). The last print in the first group. Murdered monks lay by French soldiers looting church treasures.[42]
Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

Quinta del Sordo (1819-1822)[edit]
In an array of earthen colors, a black silhouetted horned figure to the left foreground presides over and addresses a large circle of a tightly packed group of wide-eyed intense, scary, elderly and unruly women
Witches' Sabbath or Aquelarre is one of 14 from the Black Paintings series.
The historical record of Goya's later life is relatively scant; no accounts of his thoughts from this time survive. He deliberately suppressed a number of his works from this period.[43] Tormented by a dread of old age and fear of madness, the latter possibly from anxiety caused by an undiagnosed illness that left him deaf from the early 1790s.[44] Goya had been a successful and royally placed artist, but withdrew from public life during his final years. From the late 1810s he lived in near-solitude outside Madrid in a farmhouse converted into a studio. The house had become known as "La Quinta del Sordo" (The House of the Deaf Man), after the nearest farmhouse had coincidentally also belonged to a deaf man.[45]

Art historians assume Goya felt alienated from the social and political trends that followed the 1814 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and that he viewed these developments as reactionary means of social control. In his unpublished art he seems to have railed against what he saw as a tactical retreat into Medievalism.[46] It is thought that he had hoped for political and religious reform, but like many liberals became disillusioned when the restored Bourbon monarchy and Catholic hierarchy rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812.[47]

At the age of 75, alone and in mental and physical despair, he completed the work as one of his 14 Black Paintings,[D] all of which were executed in oil directly onto the plaster walls of his house. Goya did not intend for the paintings to be exhibited, did not write of them,[E] and likely never spoke of them.[48] It was not until around 1874, some 50 years after his death, that they were taken down and transferred to a canvas support. Many of the works were significantly altered during the restoration, and in the words of Arthur Lubow what remain are "at best a crude facsimile of what Goya painted."[49] The effects of time on the murals, coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas, meant that most of the murals suffered extensive damage and loss of paint. Today they are on permanent display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Bordeaux (October 1824-1828)[edit]

The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, 1825–27, is the third and final Goya portrait which may depict Leocadia Weiss.[50]
Leocadia Weiss (née Zorrilla, b. 1790)[51][52] the artist's maid, younger by 35 years, and a distant relative,[53] lived with and cared for Goya after Bayeu's death. She stayed with him in his Quinta del Sordo villa until 1824 with her daughter Rosario.[54] Leocadia was probably similar in features to Goya's first wife Josefa Bayeu, to the point that one of his well known portraits bears the cautious title of Josefa Bayeu (or Leocadia Weiss).[55]

Not much is known about her beyond her fiery temperament. She was likely related to the Goicoechea family, a wealthy dynasty into which the artist's son, the feckless Javier, had married. It is believed she held liberal political views and was unafraid of expressing them, a fact met with disapproval by Goya's family. It is known that Leocadia had an unhappy marriage with a jeweler, Isideo Weiss, but was separated from him since 1811. Her husband cited "illicit conduct" during the divorce proceedings. She had two children before the marriage dissolved, and bore a third, Rosario, in 1814 when she was 26. Isideo was not the father, and it has often been speculated—although with little firm evidence—that the child belonged to Goya.[56] There has been much speculation that Goya and Weiss were romantically linked, however, it is more likely the affection between them was sentimental.[57]

Leocadia was left nothing in Goya's will; mistresses were often omitted in such circumstances, but it is also likely that he did not want to dwell on his mortality by thinking about or revising his will. She wrote to a number of Goya's friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya's also and by then were old men or had died, and did not reply. Largely destitute she moved into rented accommodation and passed on her copy of the Caprichos for free.[58]

Films[edit]
Goya - Crazy Like a Genius (2012) a documentary by Ian MacMillan, presented by Robert Hughes.
Goya's Ghosts (2006) directed by Miloš Forman
Volavérunt (1999) directed by Bigas Luna and based on the homonym novel of Antonio Larreta
Goya in Bordeaux (1999) Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya
Goya - Der lange Weg der Erkenntnis (1971), an East German film directed by Konrad Wolf
The Naked Maja (1958) directed by Henry Koster. A film about the painter Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba; Anthony Franciosa played Goya and Ava Gardner played The Duchess
Footnotes[edit]
Jump up ^ The paternal family name is Goya, the second or maternal family name is Lucientes
Jump up ^ Théophile Gautier described the figures as looking like "the corner baker and his wife after they won the lottery".[20]
Jump up ^ "Even if one takes into consideration the fact that Spanish portraiture is often realistic to the point of eccentricity, Goya's portrait still remains unique in its drastic description of human bankruptcy". Licht (1979), 68
Jump up ^ A contemporary inventory compiled by Goya's friend, the painter Antonio de Brugada, records 15. See Lubow, 2003
Jump up ^ As he had with for the "Caprichos" and "The Disasters of War" series. Licht (1979), 159
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Hughes (2004), 32
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 6–7
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 27
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 6
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 33
Jump up ^ "Cartas de Goya a Martín Zapater. Museo del Prado. Retrieved 13 December 2015
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 14
Jump up ^ Hagen & Hagen, 317
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 34
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 37
Jump up ^ Eitner (1997), 58
Jump up ^ Baticle (1994), 74
Jump up ^ Symmons (2004), 66
Jump up ^ Hagen & Hagen, 7
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 95
Jump up ^ Hagen; Hagen (1999), 7
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 96
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 130
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 83
Jump up ^ Chocano, Carina. "Goya's Ghosts". Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2007. Retrieved on 18 January 2008.
Jump up ^ Tomlinson (2003), 147
Jump up ^ Tomlinson (1991), 59
Jump up ^ Licht (1979), 83
Jump up ^ "The Nude Maja, the Prado". Retrieved 17 July 2010.
Jump up ^ The unflinching eye.. The Guardian, October 2003.
Jump up ^ Museo del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas. Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Madrid, 1996. 138. ISBN 84-87317-53-7
Jump up ^ The Sleep of Reason Linda Simon (www.worldandi.com). Retrieved 2 December 2006.
Jump up ^ Siri Hustvedt (10 August 2006). Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-56898-618-0.
Jump up ^ Mary Mathews Gedo (1985). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art: PPA. Analytic Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-88163-030-5.
Jump up ^ James G. Hollandsworth (31 January 1990). The Physiology of Psychological Disorders: Schizophrenia, Depression, Anxiety and Substance Abuse. Springer. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-306-43353-5.
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 78–79
Jump up ^ Petra ten-Doesschate Chu; Laurinda S. Dixon (2008). Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Art: Essays in Honor of Gabriel P. Weisberg. Associated University Presse. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-87413-011-9.
Jump up ^ Paul Williams (3 February 2011). The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance. Karnac Books. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-78049-298-8.
Jump up ^ Thomas Crow (2007). "3: Tensions of the Enlightenment, Goya". In Stephen Eisenman. Nineteenth Century Art.: A Critical History (PDF) (3 ed.). New York: Thames and Hudson. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
Jump up ^ Licht (1979), 156
Jump up ^ Schulz, Andrew. "The Expressive Body in Goya's Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent". The Art Bulletin, 80.4 1998.
Jump up ^ It is not known why Goya became sick, theories range from polio to syphilis or lead poisoning. Yet he survived until eighty-two years.
Jump up ^ Hughes, Robert. "The unflinching eye". The Guardian, 4 October 2003. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
Jump up ^ Wilson-Bareau, 45
Jump up ^ Jones, Jonathan. "Look what we did". The Guardian, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 175
^ Jump up to: a b Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. "The Napoleonic wars: the Peninsular War 1807–1814". Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002. 73. ISBN 1-84176-370-5
Jump up ^ Connell, 175
Jump up ^ The cause of Goya's illness is unknown; theories range from polio to syphilis to lead poisoning. See Connell, 78–79
Jump up ^ Connell, 204; Hughes, 372
Jump up ^ Larson, Kay. "Dark Knight". New York Magazine, Volume 22, No. 20, 15 May 1989. 111.
Jump up ^ Stoichita; Coderch, 25–30
Jump up ^ Licht (1979), 159
Jump up ^ Lubow, Arthur. "The Secret of the Black Paintings". New York Times, 27 July 2003. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 402
Jump up ^ Junquera, 13
Jump up ^ Stevenson, 243
Jump up ^ Gassier, 103
Jump up ^ Buchholz, 79
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 28
Jump up ^ Hughes (2004), 372
Jump up ^ Junquera, 68
Jump up ^ Connell (2004), 235
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