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Francisco Goya

Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)

  • Fame85.0
  • Momentum10.0
  • Global rank#230
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame85.0
  • Momentum10.0
  • Global rank#230
  • Spain rank#6
  • Artists rank#8
  • Wikipedia95.2K
Lived 1746–1828, aged 82Spain
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  • Wikipedia
    165 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Global rank
    #230
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  • Era
    1746–1828
    Aged 82
Summary
Updated 2026-08-13

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.

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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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Sourced, dated quotes from Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya
said
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.
— letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 1789; from: Francisco Zapater y Gomez : Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perse
Francisco Goya
said
I haven't heard them [n.d.r.
— letter 206, c. 1787; in Goya, A life in Letters, edited and introduced by Sarah Simmons; transl. Philip Troutman, London, Pimlico, 2004
Francisco Goya
said
I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.
— letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, signed and dated Madrid, 1 August 1786, location: Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Literary and
Francisco Goya
said
I am now Painter to the King with fifteen thousand reales [a year]..
— letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater , June 1786; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 81
Francisco Goya
said
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]..
— letter to his friend Don Martin Zapater, Madrid, 25 Feb. 1785; from: 'Francisco de Goya. MS Letters to Martín Zapater 1774-99', Collection
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Fame
Falling
85.0
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Score components
Momentum10.0
Historical27.4
Now attention35.3
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
Global rank
#230
Country rank
#6
Category rank
#8
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    wikidata · wikidata.org
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    database · pantheon.world
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