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Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.Goya was born to a middle-class family in 1746, in Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773. Their life was characterised by a series of pregnancies and miscarriages, and only one child, a son, survived into adulthood. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo-style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace. He was guarded, and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He had a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799, Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara (Prime Court Painter), the highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1800–01 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family, also influenced by Velázquez. In 1807, Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not speak his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health. His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain, he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases. Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and with failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Famously, the skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya

Plate 36 from 'Los Caprichos: A bad night (Mala noche.)

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 36 from 'Los Caprichos: A bad night (Mala noche.)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 12 from 'Los Caprichos': Out hunting for teeth (A caza des dientes.)

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 12 from 'Los Caprichos': Out hunting for teeth (A caza des dientes.)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 15 from 'Los Caprichos': A pretty piece of advice (Bellos consejos)

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 15 from 'Los Caprichos': A pretty piece of advice (Bellos consejos)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 8 from the 'Tauromaquia': A Moor Caught by the Bull in the ring.

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 8 from the 'Tauromaquia': A Moor Caught by the Bull in the ring.
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 20 from the 'Tauromaquia':The agility and audacity of Juanito Apiñani in [the ring] at Madrid.

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 20 from the 'Tauromaquia':The agility and audacity of Juanito Apiñani in [the ring] at Madrid.
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 10 from 'La Tauromaquia': Charles V spearing a bull in the ring at Valladolid

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 10 from 'La Tauromaquia': Charles V spearing a bull in the ring at Valladolid
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 17 from 'Los Caprichos': It is nicely stretched (Bien tirada está.)

Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

   title: Plate 17 from 'Los Caprichos': It is nicely stretched (Bien tirada está.)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Plate 7 from 'Los Caprichos': Even thus he cannot make her out (Ni asi la distingue.)

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Amman Marcus Curtius    title: Marcus Curtius    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 2002 Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    title: Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 1953 Triumph of Christian Faith    ti
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Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively
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Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okumura_Masanobu Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledo
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