Room 120

Francisco de Goya

1746–1828, Spain, Enlightenment and Romanticism

Goya was court painter to the kings of Spain and at the same time one of their sharpest observers. His portraits show aristocrats, merchants and friends with great directness and without flattery; he set down fabrics and lace with a few quick brushstrokes. Later, deaf and shaken by war, he denounced violence and cruelty in “The Disasters of War”.

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