Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya

Francesco Goya was a painter and a printmaker that lived in the Romanticism Era and was a court painter for the Spanish Crown. Goya is known best for his artworks depicting scenes of great violence like his famous “Los desastres de la Guerra” in which he paints and projects the Napoleonic war in Spain. Goya had a house in called Quinta del Sordo and in this house he had his 14 ‘’Black Paintings’’ which one of them was “Saturn devouring his child” (which people believed it was symbolizing the politics of Spain in that time) and also “Witches’ Sabbath”. These paintings have references of witchcraft and war on them. He is also known to be ‘’the first modern artist’’ because from his view the artist should use vision rather than tradition.

                                 "Saturn Devouring his Son"

                           

                                   "Witches' Sabbath"

Francisco De Goya - The complete works. 2013. Francisco De Goya - The complete works. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.franciscodegoya.net/. [Accessed 05 March 2013].

Francisco Goya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Francisco Goya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya. [Accessed 05 March 2013]