1829-1912  Related Paintings of william r clark :. | stanleys stora och valbevapnade expedition marscherar forbi rader rader av fientliga afrikaner | den 24 dr gamle skotske lakaren mungo park ledde en av de forsta expditionerna till afrika 1795 | fuchs karavan av snovesslor startar mot sydpolen fran shackletonlagret vid weddellhavet | det var med en kamelkaravan som den ovan ur en medeltida persisk bok som anthony fenkinson 1558 forsokte att ta sig fram till det legendomspunna catha | nordenskiolds fartyg vega ger salut,da det rundar asiens nordligaste udde kap tjeljuskin i augusti 1878 |
Related Artists:
Berninghaus, Oscar Edmund
American Painter, 1874-1952
JORDAN, Esteban
Spanish painter/sculptor (1534-1600)
Francisco Jose de Goya
Spanish Rococo Era/Romantic Painter and Printmaker, 1746-1828 Goya is considered the 18th Century's foremost painter and etcher of Spanish culture, known for his realistic scenes of battles, bullfights and human corruption. Goya lived during a time of upheaval in Spain that included war with France, the Inquisition, the rule of Napoleon's brother, Joseph, as the King of Spain and, finally, the reign of the Spanish King Ferdinand VII. Experts proclaim these events -- and Goya's deafness as a result of an illness in 1793 -- as central to understanding Goya's work, which frequently depicts human misery in a satiric and sometimes nightmarish fashion. From the 1770s he was a royal court painter for Charles III and Charles IV, and when Bonaparte took the throne in 1809, Goya swore fealty to the new king. When the crown was restored to Spain's Ferdinand VII (1814), Goya, in spite of his earlier allegiance to the French king, was reinstated as royal painter. After 1824 he lived in self-imposed exile in Bordeaux until his death, reportedly because of political differences with Ferdinand. Over his long career he created hundreds of paintings, etchings, and lithographs, among them Maya Clothed and Maya Nude (1798-1800); Caprichos (1799-82); The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808 (1814); Disasters of War (1810-20); and The Black Paintings (1820-23).