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GOYA SITE CONTACT INFO
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Acknowledgements
This
site would simply not exist without the books on Goya that I have
acquired. Particularly important are the books by Sarah Symmons and
Xavier de Salas. Comments via e-mail have also contributed greatly
to the improvement of this web site. Thank you to those who have taken
time to offer criticisms and remarks!
Anonymous
comments can be sent in the form below (include your e-mail if you
wish) thank you!
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Goya Site Status
We're
continuing to update the site and slowly upgrade older pages. You may
notice pages from the original page design. Day-to-day revisions are
occurring and we will mail out an update notice to anyone who signs
up for the service.
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Goya Site Stats 2004
Average per day pageviews: 820
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A Generally Vague
History of this Site
This
site began as a single page of Goya images and some text in the summer
of 1997 on the Geocities web site. Since then it has gone through
too many revisions to count (at least that I want to count....) And
plus it has moved to my own domain, one without those annoying pop-up
advertisements.
What
was available back in 1997 was fairly limited. There were fewer than
a dozen or so places to read on Goya - - this has changed dramatically.
Museum sites used to be quite minimal in both their offerings and
functionality (back in 1997, and before). Now many museums have some
of the best looking "art" sites that can be seen. For example,
the National Gallery of Art has a small selection of Goya paintings
with a lot of good information (go to the links
page for that link & others.) This proliferation of web sites
covering Goya to one degree or another keeps multiplying. How accurate
the information is, though, is to the reader to decide.
Since
beginning this site I have regularly been contacted by visitors
for various reasons, the number one being to seek help on high
school or college assignments. But occasionally a person will
write to request how to find a particular print, or to express
an opinion on the web site, or Goya, or both (usually favorable.)
On occasion I have been offered supposed Goya paintings for sale
(this was before sites like eBay had cornered the market on imitations
and forgeries ...caveat emptor). The Striker family of
Washington State contacted me about their quite beautiful painting
of Josepha, Goya's wife (and they let me put it on the site, see
it here) - - that's not something
you can walk into a library and look up. Hence the crazy advantages
the internet offers, being a place where unofficial (and unofficially
endorsed) artwork can be seen, read about, all without the experts
of the art world (or, really, the art business world) controlling
it .
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