Francisco Goya and his paintingsIn 1824 Francisco Goya arrived in the city of Bordeaux as a self-imposed exile from Spain. He was seventy-eight years old, stone deaf (since 1793) and profoundly out of favor with a political regime that had been his essential form of support. "Goya in ...
Goya has portrayed Godoy in an elaborate and unusual composition, in a reclining posture reminiscent of some of his paintings of women on couches, seemingly inappropriate for the hero of a military victory. Goya's portrait hints at disrespect for the pomposity of his sitter, though Godoy was a...
Francisco Goya was buried in Bordeaux. His remains were exhumed at the turn of the century and taken to Madrid as part of a huge celebration commemorated with a statue of the artist placed at the north entrance of the Prado museum, in a plaza that still bears his name. Then interred in...