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Goya

[goi-uh, gaw-yah]

noun

  1. Francisco de Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746–1828, Spanish painter.



Goya

/ ˈɡɔɪə, ˈɡoja /

noun

  1. Francisco de (franˈθisko de), full name Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. 1746–1828, Spanish painter and etcher; well known for his portraits, he became court painter to Charles IV of Spain (1799). He recorded the French invasion of Spain in a series of etchings The Disasters of War (1810–14) and two paintings 2 May 1808 and 3 May 1808 (1814)

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Another post restricted on X shared an image of Francisco de Goya's 19th-century painting entitled Saturn Devouring His Son.

From BBC

Her paintings, like Francisco Goya’s “Black Paintings,” were created in exile, the two artists centuries apart and finally free from the Spanish aristocracy.

It earned Berger a pair of nominations at the Goya Awards, Spain’s Oscars.

Each section of “Searching for Goya,” the program that Noche Flamenca is performing at the Joyce Theater this week, takes its title from a work by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya.

Alongside IRA gunmen, she carried out an armed raid on Russborough House in County Wicklow where they stole 19 masterpieces, including a Rubens, Goya and Vermeer.

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