Goya - Resources for Students and Teachers

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

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Some essential
Goya historical facts:
Born in Fuendetodos,
near Saragossa, Spain
on March 30, 1746
Died April 15, 1828 in Bordeaux, France

Goya was a professional portrait painter (i.e., this is how he earned his living) who was also a "realist" painter who unintentionally presaged modern painting because of some of the subjects he chose (war, oppression). He is often called the "father of modernism" especially for having painted "The 3rd of May" and for how he drew some of the black and white etchings that he did.

The newspaper the UK Guardian provided this "back story" about Goya in 2006 as:

Francisco de Goya was a Spanish court painter who turned gradually from portraits of royalty and nobles to subversive depictions of everything from war and the inquisition to monsters and priests. Born in 1746, he slowly gained fame as a portrait artist, thanks to a series of Spanish monarchs who became patrons. He went deaf in 1792, apparently due to the poisons contained in his paints. Obsessed by the French Revolution and philosophy, he turned out a a series of troubling aquatint etchings known as Los Caprichos

He is credited with being one of the first artists to describe the full horrors of warfare. He continues to provoke passions today, with British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman shocking the art world in 2003 by defacing a series of his Disasters of War prints.

For a complete time-line of
events in Goya's life, go here.

Articles
Biography Articles
The Black Paintings
Goya Scholarship
Goya Collecting
Goya's Paintings Methods and Subjects
Goya Exhibits
Goya Movies, Music and Media
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How to cite this web site:

Based upon the Chicago Manual of Style. For your footnotes or endnotes you may cite as:

1 Erik E. Weems, ed., Francisco de Goya Website, 5 April 2006, eeweems.com/goya, <http://eeweems.com/goya>, Timeline of Goya's Life.

[Note: change the date above which is in bold letters with the date you used this website. Substitute the page titled, "Timeline of Goya's Life " with the page that you are noting in your schoolwork.]

Additional citations should be in the form of this example:

2 Weems, Introduction to Goya [or use the appropriate author and title]
3 Ibid., Review of Images of Women Exhibit [ or use the appropriate author and title]

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Education "Pack"
The Hayward Gallery has a "Education Pack" page related to their exhibit of Goya drawing albums. The page asks (and answers) many basic theme and biographical questions concerning Goya. Their page is here.

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Museums in which there are at least five Goya paintings for viewing:

UNITED STATES

BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts

CAMBRIDGE
Fogg Art Museum

CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago

DALLAS
Meadows Museum

NEW YORK
Frick Collection
Hispanic Society of America
Metropolitan Museum of Art

WASHINGTON DC
National Gallery of Art

EUROPE

FRANCE
Bayonne Musée Bonnat
Paris Musée du Louvre
Lille Musée des Beaux Arts

GERMANY
Berlin Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulterbesitz
Hamburg Kunsthalle
Munich Alte Pinkothek

NETHERLANDS
Rotterdam Museum Boymans-van Beuningen

SPAIN
Madrid
Biblioteca Nacional; Calcografia Nacional; Fundacion lazaro Galdiano; Museo del Prado; Palacio Real; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; Real Academia de la Historia; San Antonio de la Florida
Valencia
Museo provincial de Bellas Artes
Zaragoza
Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar; Charterhouse of Aula Dei; Museo Provincial de Belles Artes

SWEDEN
Stockholm Nationalmuseum

SWITZERLAND
Winterthur
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Romerholz"

UNITED KINGDOM
London
British Museum; National Gallery

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