Francisco Goya(1746-1828)

The Tensions of Enlightenment

Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters , No. 43 from Los Caprichos (The Caprices) 1796-98; published 1799Etching and aquatint21.6 x 15.2 cm.

Francisco Goya, La cometa (The Kite), 1778, tapestry cartoon. 269 x 285 cm. Prado museum, Madrid, Spain.

FRANCISCO GOYA, The Family of Charles IV, 1800. Oil on canvas, approx. 9’ 2” x 11’. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Details of Goya’s Family of Charles IV, 1800

Francisco Goya, Clothed Maja and Naked Maja, ca. 1798-1805, oil on canvas, c. 37x75 in. Both in the Prado museum, Madrid

Francisco Goya, Courtyard with Lunatics, 1793-4, Oil on canvas, c. 17x13in.

Francisco Goya, The Witches' Sabbath, 1797-98, oil on canvas, 44 x 31 cm. Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Francisco Goya, Los Chinchillas, No. 50 from Los Caprichos (The Caprices) 1799, etching and aquatint20.8 x 15.1 cm.

FRANCISCO GOYA, The Third of May 1808, 1814. Oil on canvas, approx. 8’ 8” x 11’ 3” Museo del Prado, Madrid. Note the Franciscan priest about to be executed.

The Prado museum, Madrid, Spain - 2008 Goya exhibition with The Second of May, 1808 (left) and The Third of May, 1808 (right), both painted in 1814

FRANCISCO GOYA, (left) This is Worse, # 37; (right) Ravages of War, #40, from The Disasters of War series of 82 prints, etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1810-20,(left) French execution, mutilated Spanish man impaled on a tree; (right) women raped and murdered. The Spanish guerrillas practiced such atrocities against the

French occupiers.

Spanish War of Independence against French occupation, 1808-1814 // “Guerrilla” (little war)

Francisco GOYA, Disasters of War: Scarred for Life, 1810-20To see all 80 prints in the series:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Los_desastres_de_la_guerra

Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War 79: Truth is Dead, ca 1810-20, etching, 7x9in.

FRANCISCO GOYA, Saturn Devouring One of His Children, 1819–1823. Detail of a detached fresco on canvas, full size approx. 4’ 9” x 2’ 8”. Museo del Prado Madrid.

The horrors of both “reason” and “unreason.” Monstrous side of humanity.This painting is one of 14 in a series known as the Black Paintings.