The romantic brushstrokes and stark realities in Francisco Goya’s The Third of May (1814), a pivotal canvas depicting the public executions of Spanish freedom fighters by French troops ...

who returned to Spain as king in 1814. One of Goya's more famous prints shows three naked and dismembered corpses (Goya: Plate 39 / The Folio Society) There are many scenes of savagery and ...

Imperilled after the Bourbon restoration of 1814 by a purge of collaborators with the French regime, Goya redeemed a painting that he had made of Joseph I by substituting, or having someone else ...

It had been abolished in 1808 by Joseph Bonaparte but reinstated for several more years in 1814 by Ferdinand VII. Goya hadn’t necessarily seen the depravity he depicted. He probably invented ...

As supreme mirages of dark delight and horror, Goya’s late paintings and etchings were probably inspired by the imagery of gothic novels, which he must have read either in English or French, for the ...

In 1814 the political landscape changed again when Ferdinand VII was reinstalled as King of Spain. Goya retained his position as court painter, but King Ferdinand was suspicious of him ...

The Colossus, one of the world’s best-known paintings, has again been attributed to the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, with the Museo del Prado in Madrid quietly restoring his name to the work ...