Goya

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746 - 1828) - an artist whose name is inseparable from the turbulent era of revolutionary upheavals, from the hopes and disappointments of his contemporaries. His biography, written by the famous art historian Alexander Yakimovich, includes... anecdotes, interludes, scientific hypotheses, subjective conjectures, and other attempts to approach the exciting, frightening, and amazing meanings of the paintings of the great master of painting and graphics. The reader will encounter Goya's close friends, like-minded individuals, antagonists, admirers, and rivals. The book also features the masses, kings, commanders, noble ladies, daring young girls, free thinkers, inquisitors, guerrilla partisans, patrons, poets, toreadors, and other inhabitants of Spain and the rest of the world.