Goya

Goya His name, Francisco Goya, born in 1746, one of Spains most innovative painters and etchers; also one of the triumvirate-including El Greco and Diego Velázquez-of great Spanish masters. Much in the art of Goya is derived from that of Velázquez, just as much in the art of the 19th-century French master Édouard Manet and the 20th-century genius Pablo Picasso is taken from Goya. Trained in a mediocre rococo artistic milieu , Goya transformed this often frivolous style and created works, such as the famous The third of May, 1808, that have as great an impact today as when they were created Goya was born in the small Aragonese town of Fuendetodos (near Zaragoza) on March 30, 1746. His father was a painter and a gilder of altarpieces, and his mother was descended from a family of minor Aragonese nobility. Facts of Goya's childhood are scarce. He attended school in Zaragoza at the Escuelas Pias. Goya's formal artistic education commenced when, at the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local master, José Luzan, a competent although little-known painter in whose studio Goya spent four years. In 1763 the young artist went to Madrid, where goya, painter, goya's, zaragoza, style, spanish, one, fresco, court, works, working, win, velázquez, time, tapestry, spent, spain, san, paintings, nobility, near, much, master, manner, madrid, greatest, great, francisco, executed, el, early, de, church, cartoons, born, bayeu, artistic, artist, art, aragonese, although, academy, 1780s, 1746, édouard, zaragoza, young, years, year, wife