Goya : : A Portrait of the Artist / / Janis Tomlinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Tomlinson, Janis,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 35 color + 46 b/w illus.

The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, considered the last of Spain's old masters and the first artist of the modern eraThe art of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is informed by the age in which he lived, a period in Spain's history that saw a succession of ki...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Main and Supporting Characters
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. An Artist from Zaragoza
• 1 Early Years
• 2 First Trials
• 3 Italy
• 4 Triumphs of a Native Son
• 5 Settings for the Court of Carlos III
• 6 “Of my invention”
• 7 Goya Meets Velázquez
• 8 The Zaragoza Affair
• Part II. The Path of a Court Painter
• 9 Floridablanca
• 10 Don Luis
• 11 “The happiest man”
• 12 “God has distinguished us”
• 13 A Coronation under Darkening Skies
• 14 Changing Times
• 15 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
• Part III. Witness of a Silent World
• 16 “There are no rules in painting”
• 17 Goya and the Duchess
• 18 Dreaming, Enlightened
• 19 Subir y bajar
• 20 “The king and queen are crazy about your friend”
• 21 The French Connection
• 22 Absences
• 23 Society High and Low
• 24 A Monarchy at Twilight
• Part IV. War and Restoration
• 25 The Old Order Falls
• 26 In the Shadow of a New Regime
• 27 On the Home Front
• 28 The Spoils of War
• 29 Portraits of a New Order
• Part V. Triumphs of Caprice
• 30 Disparates
• 31 The Artist’s Retreat
• 32 Farewells
• 33 Paris
• 34 Unsettled in Bordeaux
• 35 “Only my will abounds”
• 36 The Last Year
• Epilogue: Rosario
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Image Credits