Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, "The Third of May 1808" (1814), oil on canvas, 106 x 137 inches, in the collection of the Museo del Prado (image via Wikimedia Commons) The Hispanic Society Museum and ...

Artists throughout history have had their go-to muses: Dante Gabriel Rossetti had Elizabeth Siddal, Salvador Dalí had Gala Diakonova, Francis Bacon had George Dyer, and Frida Kahlo had Diego Rivera.

Spanish Police have arrested two brothers from Girona, Spain, who attempted to sell a fake Francisco de Goya painting to a purported sheikh, EFE reports. But the “sheikh” was no victim: he paid the ...

In February 1819, Francisco de Goya, whose own ears were already rushing with the deafness brought on by lead poisoning, signed the deed of purchase for an isolated estate known as The Deaf Man’s ...

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Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. If Halloween had an official artist, it would undoubtedly be Francisco Goya ...

If it’s a truism that art reflects the surroundings and the time that it’s made, there’s another accompanying truth equally durable: All artists have to navigate in the surroundings they work in. Da ...

There are many dimensions to the art of Francisco Goya, as “Goya: Order and Disorder,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, goes to great lengths to remind us. With their slicing and dicing and ...

Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote ...

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