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'In 1784, Goya painted the first portrait of the [Spanish] royal family to also show the painter. He also showed the servants, another innovation.'
— Mar 14, 2026 06:08AM
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'In 18th-century Spain, etching was rarely done as art and was used more to illustrate books or topographical works. But Goya made it the medium of modernity.'
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'The Disasters of War were a first-hand report of violent and cruel political events immortalized by Goya. 80 sheets show the atrocities he had witnessed or heard about. These definitely do not glorify the struggle or take any one side, but instead present the suffering of the victims, something without precedent in the previous history of art.'
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After Napoleon abdicated, Ferdinand VII restored the Bourbon monarchy and began to persecute the liberals. War, famine and epidemics threw the country into a serious crisis.'
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'After Charles IV abdicated and went into exile in France, he transferred his rights to Napoleon. French troops tried to enforce Napoleon's claim to power and found themselves in fierce battles with the people of Spain. In Madrid alone, 20,000 people were killed within one year. The French were unable to put down the uprising.
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'In the 1790, Goya travelled repeatedly across southern Spain. He extended his 1792 trip an additional year due to a serious illness which caused Goya to lose his hearing. This was the period in which Goya created the Caprichos, which show a closeness to the liberal spirit of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.'
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'His entire work tend to look both ways, showing styles ranging from classic academic art to what would become Modernism, with tender and playful Rococo and classical elegance to rugged realism and dark Romanticism.'
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Mar 14, 2026 06:29AM
And Velazquez " las meninas", what is that then, and who does it show? 😁 ok, it is not a portrait explicitly of the royal couple, even if they are in the frame, but goya then is not revolutionary but evolutionary?
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I thought the same! All the more so when... Las meninas enjoys a feature a mere five pages later. Then, I reread this passage and understood "the painter" refers to... Goya. All the more unclear as the following phrase implies that the first one described an artistic innovation in itself... Quite an ambiguous way to phrase it, isn't it? I wouldn't have managed to make it more confusing if I tried as hard as I could... :D But this is one of the charms of this collection, along with the typos and odd translations. At least, the text is in 6 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch), so you get to compare them with one other :D
😂, so which was the original language of composition? Who is to blame for this soup of confusion?
The original text is in German ^^' And every bit as confusing... '1784 entsteht das erste Familienporträt, in das sich der Meister integriert. Neu ist auch, Herr- und Dienerschaft zusammen in ein Bild zu setzen.'
P.E. wrote: "The original text is in German ^^' And every bit as confusing... '1784 entsteht das erste Familienporträt, in das sich der Meister integriert. Neu ist auch, Herr- und Dienerschaft zusammen in ein..."
That seems even worse or less informed because that phrasi g describes Las Meninas equally well 😢
