![]() ![]() ![]() This absorbing, thoughtful, prize-winning study, while remaining the essential monograph on this landmark painter, is now made available to a wider audience in an attractively priced paperback edition. ![]() In this beautifully illustrated and up-to-date account of all aspects of Goya's career, Janis Tomlinson addresses the contradictions of his art and places the artist and his work in the social and political context of Spain and Europe during the period of the French Revolution and its reactionary aftermath. Among his works are formal royal portraits and the so-called 'black paintings' - intensely private images of loneliness and despair. The life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the countrys politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Goya: A Portrait of the Artist. ![]() Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. For most of his career he was court painter to the Spanish kings, yet he also produced some of the most compelling images of social unrest and personal anguish ever painted. Goya: A Portrait of the Artist - Kindle edition by Tomlinson, Janis. Francisco Goya (1746-1828) has been called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. ![]()
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