Goya's portraits
XAVIER BRAY
TURNER
ART
Dimensions: 23 × 28 cm
Pages: 272
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was one of the greatest portraitists of his time. He produced some of the most magnificent formal portraits in world art, memorable both for their insight into the relationship between artist and subject and for their penetrating psychological depth.
This publication offers new perspectives on Goya and his contemporaries, and on the politically turbulent and culturally dynamic era in which they lived.
Xavier Bray traces Goya's career from his early beginnings at the court of Charles III to his later years in Bordeaux, against the backdrop of the war with France and the social, political and cultural changes of the Enlightenment.
More than 60 portraits, including drawings and miniatures, reveal the full range of Goya's technical and stylistic achievements. He portrayed royalty, philosophers, military figures, and friends with unparalleled humanity. His break with the traditional conventions of the late 18th century allowed him to achieve a modernity only later matched by painters such as Manet, Picasso, and Freud.
XAVIER BRAY
TURNER
ART
Dimensions: 23 × 28 cm
Pages: 272
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was one of the greatest portraitists of his time. He produced some of the most magnificent formal portraits in world art, memorable both for their insight into the relationship between artist and subject and for their penetrating psychological depth.
This publication offers new perspectives on Goya and his contemporaries, and on the politically turbulent and culturally dynamic era in which they lived.
Xavier Bray traces Goya's career from his early beginnings at the court of Charles III to his later years in Bordeaux, against the backdrop of the war with France and the social, political and cultural changes of the Enlightenment.
More than 60 portraits, including drawings and miniatures, reveal the full range of Goya's technical and stylistic achievements. He portrayed royalty, philosophers, military figures, and friends with unparalleled humanity. His break with the traditional conventions of the late 18th century allowed him to achieve a modernity only later matched by painters such as Manet, Picasso, and Freud.
XAVIER BRAY
TURNER
ART
Dimensions: 23 × 28 cm
Pages: 272
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was one of the greatest portraitists of his time. He produced some of the most magnificent formal portraits in world art, memorable both for their insight into the relationship between artist and subject and for their penetrating psychological depth.
This publication offers new perspectives on Goya and his contemporaries, and on the politically turbulent and culturally dynamic era in which they lived.
Xavier Bray traces Goya's career from his early beginnings at the court of Charles III to his later years in Bordeaux, against the backdrop of the war with France and the social, political and cultural changes of the Enlightenment.
More than 60 portraits, including drawings and miniatures, reveal the full range of Goya's technical and stylistic achievements. He portrayed royalty, philosophers, military figures, and friends with unparalleled humanity. His break with the traditional conventions of the late 18th century allowed him to achieve a modernity only later matched by painters such as Manet, Picasso, and Freud.