Goya, an account of his life and works

It would have been strange indeed if Goya had resisted the temptations by which he was surrounded; it is remarkable under the circumstances that he remained unspoiled. The King,...

When Goya returned to Madrid in 1775 Spanish art was directed by Mengs and Tiepolo, by Maëlla and Francesco Bayeu. Mengs, the ‘reasoning artificer,’ who had neglected the world...

In 1803 Goya was fifty-seven years old. The corruption in high places, against which he had hurled his darts, was fast driving Spain into the grasp of the world-power which was...

To this appeal Goya returned what we may describe as a characteristic letter. This epistle has been published in Spain, but no translation has hitherto appeared in England. The...

A century before the birth of Goya, Spanish painting had attained its crown of achievement in the work of the four great naturalists, Velazquez, Ribera, Zurbarán, and Murillo. J...

Represented by a female figure, amply draped, holding a sickle, and gracefully accepting fruit and flowers. In the upper part of the picture, which is painted in distemper on ca...

In June 1824, at the age of seventy-six, Goya set out for France. Before starting he painted his ‘San José de Calasanz receiving the Sacrament’--perhaps his finest religious com...

194. Don Pedro de Alcantara Tellez Giron y Pacheco, Marqués de Penafiel, 9th Duque de Osuna; with his wife, Doña Maria Josefa Pimentel Tellez Giron Borga, Condesa and Duquesa of...

Don Juan de Dios de la Rada y Delgado, who supplied the text for the volume of aquafortis engravings of these frescoes which D. José Moria Galvan y Candela executed in 1897, tel...

273. Fresco of the Cupola of San Antonio } de la Florida, 1st Section, } 274. Fresco of the Cupola of San Antonio } de la Florida, 2nd Section, } The Church of San 275. Fresco o...

GOYA TOLEDO MADRID SEVILLE MURILLO CORDOVA EL GRECO VELAZQUEZ THE PRADO THE ESCORIAL ROYAL PALACES OF SPAIN SPANISH ARMS AND ARMOUR GRANADA AND THE ALHAMBRA LEON, BURGOS, AND SA...

A new and important series of volumes, dealing with Spain in its various aspects, its history, its cities and monuments. Each volume will be complete in itself in a uniform bind...

‘From one to the other.’ Old dotards attacking a third who is playing at ‘ball.’ May be intended to convey a satire on the aged who pretend to the activities and energy of youth.

In Leon, once the capital of the second kingdom in Spain; in Burgos, which boasts one of the most magnificent cathedrals in Spain, and the custodianship of the bones of the Cid;...