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Kalliope
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In that moment the crowd of men and women and children (in a bullfight) roared together in a single voice of exultation. And in that moment Goya could hear them. The sound vibrated along the wooden bench on which he was sitting. It sipped into the bones of his buttocks, it rose up through his spine, tickling him like the stirring of sexual desire, and it burst into his head, making him roar with the rest of them.
— Feb 15, 2018 01:56AM
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Kalliope
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The old man on a swing seems to be a self-portrait... The old man wears a rumpled suit and a white shirt. His feet are bare and his calves are knotted with muscles. His face is filled with a look of a wild and private joy.
— Feb 16, 2018 10:28PM
The old man on a swing seems to be a self-portrait... The old man wears a rumpled suit and a white shirt. His feet are bare and his calves are knotted with muscles. His face is filled with a look of a wild and private joy.
Kalliope
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During his short stay in Madrid in the summer of 1826, Goya agreed at the request of the King, to have his portrait painted by the celebrated and very academic Court Painter Vicente López.
— Feb 16, 2018 12:46PM
Kalliope
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Goya sent Rosario (Weiss) to art lessons in Bordeaux...
— Feb 16, 2018 12:42PM
Kalliope
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.. Paris 1824...It is curious to realise that while Delacroix was making copies of the Caprichos and a printing firm was producing an edition of six very poor imitations of the etchings, but no one was aware of the deaf old man who was pottering through the backstreets of the city, busy with beggars and acrobats and the smiles of prostitutes.
— Feb 16, 2018 11:50AM
Kalliope
is on page 151 of 239
Underneath the painting The Pilgrimage to San Isidoro (La romería de San Isidro - not Isidoro), in which a terrible crowd of men and women blunder through the moon-dark hills following a guitar player, there are traces of a wide panorama of mountain ranges where a great bridge with three arches crosses a bridge.
— Feb 16, 2018 02:53AM
Kalliope
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On the Disparates..
No prints were ever taken from these plates and when Goya had to leave Spain they were wrapped up and put away in a cupboard. No one knew of their existence until long after his death.
— Feb 16, 2018 01:54AM
No prints were ever taken from these plates and when Goya had to leave Spain they were wrapped up and put away in a cupboard. No one knew of their existence until long after his death.
Kalliope
is on page 121 of 239
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In a private notebook he drew a little caricature of the Duke of Wellington as a strutting peacock of vanity.
— Feb 15, 2018 12:43AM
In a private notebook he drew a little caricature of the Duke of Wellington as a strutting peacock of vanity.
Kalliope
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He made another and more intimate portrait of Wellington during 1812: the long equine face staring blankly outwards as if seeing a ghost....
— Feb 15, 2018 12:41AM
He made another and more intimate portrait of Wellington during 1812: the long equine face staring blankly outwards as if seeing a ghost....
Kalliope
is on page 121 of 239
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Goya produced commissioned work when it was asked of him. In an equestrian portrait he rubbed out the face of the deposed Bonaparte King Joseph and replaced it with the face of the Duke of Wellington.
— Feb 15, 2018 12:31AM
Goya produced commissioned work when it was asked of him. In an equestrian portrait he rubbed out the face of the deposed Bonaparte King Joseph and replaced it with the face of the Duke of Wellington.
Kalliope
is on page 115 of 239
During that same time when sudden and unnecessary death was spreading everywhere across the country and the rustle and scratch of famine was beginning to creep through the streets of Madrid, Goya made a series of still lifes.
— Feb 15, 2018 12:14AM