Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
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He painted kings and then painted the nightmare beneath: a Spanish court artist who went deaf, turned inward, and left walls covered in visions so dark they still unsettle — Saturn devouring his son, witches, war atrocities — bridging the Old Masters and everything modern that followed.
Born in Aragon in 1746 to a middle-class family, Goya trained under José Luzán y Martínez from age 14, married Josefa Bayeu in 1773, and rose to court painter for the Spanish Crown by 1786, spending his early career on aristocratic portraits and Rococo tapestry cartoons for the royal palace. A severe undiagnosed illness in 1793 left him deaf, and his work grew progressively darker and more pessimistic; by 1799 he was Primer Pintor de Cámara, the highest rank, painting Charles IV of Spain and His Family and the daring La maja desnuda. Napoleon's 1807 invasion and the Peninsular War shook him de…
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I had established an enviable scheme of life. I refused to dance attendance in the ante-chambers of the great. If anyone wanted something from me he had to ask.
I haven't heard them [n.d.r.
I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.
I am now Painter to the King with fifteen thousand reales [a year]..
Beloved soulmate.. ..you'll kiss my ass at least seven times if I manage to convince you from the crazy happiness I got from living here [Madrid]..
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