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From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial artists. A master of form and light, his influence reverberates down the centuries, inspiring and fascinating artists from the Romantic Eugène Delacroix to Britart enfants terribles, the Chapman brothers.Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, in 1746, Goya was apprenticed to the Spanish royal family in 1774, where he produced etchings and tapestry cartoons for grand palaces and royal residences across the country. He was also patronized by the aristocracy, painting commissioned portraits of the rich and powerful with his increasingly fluid and expressive style. Later, after a bout of illness, the artist moved towards darker etchings and drawings, introducing a nightmarish realm of witches, ghosts, and fantastical creatures.It was, however, with his horrific depictions of conflict that Goya achieved enduring impact. Executed between 1810 and 1820, The Disasters of War was inspired by atrocities committed during the Spanish struggle for independence from the French and penetrated the very heart of human cruelty and sadism. The bleak tones, agitated brushstrokes, and aggressive use of Baroque-like light and dark contrasts recalled Velázquez and Rembrandt, but Goya’s subject matter was unprecedented in its brutality and honesty.In this introductory book from TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 we set out to explore the full arc of Goya’s remarkable career, from elegant court painter to deathly seer of suffering and grotesquerie. Along the way, we encounter such famed portraits as Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga, the dazzling Naked Maja, and The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, one of the most heart-stopping images of war in the history of art.

Con explicaciones sencillas e ilustraciones atractivas, consiguen acercarnos las cuestiones más complejas de manera fácil y divertida. ¡La historia al alcance de tu mano! ¿Que encontrarás en este libro? - Explicaciones sencillas a temas complejos. - Ilustraciones que animarán la lectura del libro. - Temas muy variados al gusto de todos los lectores. - Rigor con un tono sencillo, ameno y ¡un montón de ilustraciones!

Debéis saber que mi pasión por la lectura empezó hace mucho tiempo, cuando era pequeño... Y os he de confersar que, sobre todo, me fascinaban las peripecias legendarias de los dioses y los héroes de la mitología griega, luchando con monstruos y criaturas fantásticas. Algunas son divertidas; otras, osadas; ¡otras más hacen que los bigotes te vibren de emoción! Y todas nos enseñan algo sobre la lealtad, la valentía, la amistad, el ingenio... ¡Son historias antiguas que se pueden leer y releer sin cansarse nunca de ellas!