Goya bio
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Goya bio
| Francisco de Goya | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mar. 30, 1746 Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain |
| Died | Apr. 16, 1828 (at age 82) Bordeaux, France |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Movement | Romanticism |
| Field | Painting, Printmaking |
Goya was a unique painter.
He was known for his dark prints, and paintings, and for being cruelly realistic in each one of them. He never tried to beautify a personal portrait, and he portrayed things as he saw them, not how people wanted them.
Francisco goya bio
Goya was only famous with the aristocrats when he was alive, which is more than most artists can say.
Francisco de Goya was born in Aragón, Spain, on March 30, 1746. His dad was a guilder, and his family was middle class.
They lived in a house that bore his mom’s family crest, but later moved to Madrid. At the age of 14, he became an apprentice to José Luzán, but was not with him for long because of the move to Madrid.
At Madrid, he studied with Anton Raphael Mengs, and spent a few years working with him.
He failed his examinations