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Francisco Goya

(1746-1828)

The Tensions of Enlightenment


Francisco Goya, The Sleep of
Reason Produces Monsters , No.
43 from Los Caprichos (The
Caprices)
1796-98; published 1799
Etching and aquatint
21.6 x 15.2 cm.
Francisco Goya, La cometa (The Kite), 1778, tapestry cartoon. 269 x 285
cm. Prado museum, Madrid, Spain.
FRANCISCO GOYA, The Family of Charles IV, 1800. Oil on canvas,
approx. 9 2 x 11. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Details of Goyas Family
of Charles IV, 1800
Francisco Goya,
Clothed Maja and
Naked Maja, ca. 1798-
1805, oil on canvas, c.
37x75 in. Both in the
Prado museum,
Madrid
Francisco Goya, Courtyard
with Lunatics, 1793-4, Oil
on canvas, c. 17x13in.
Francisco Goya, The Witches'
Sabbath, 1797-98, oil on canvas,
44 x 31 cm. Madrid, Museo
Lzaro Galdiano
Francisco Goya, Los Chinchillas,
No. 50 from Los Caprichos (The
Caprices)
1799, etching and aquatint
20.8 x 15.1 cm.
FRANCISCO GOYA, The Third of May 1808, 1814. Oil on canvas, approx. 8 8 x
11 3 Museo del Prado, Madrid. Note the Franciscan priest about to be executed.
The Prado museum, Madrid, Spain - 2008 Goya exhibition with The Second of May,
1808 (left) and The Third of May, 1808 (right), both painted in 1814
Spanish War of Independence against French occupation,
1808-1814 // Guerrilla (little war)

FRANCISCO GOYA, (left) This is Worse, # 37; (right) Ravages of War, #40, from
The Disasters of War series of 82 prints, etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1810-20,
(left) French execution, mutilated Spanish man impaled on a tree; (right) women
raped and murdered. The Spanish guerrillas practiced such atrocities against the
French occupiers.
Francisco GOYA, Disasters of War: Scarred for Life, 1810-20
To see all 80 prints in the series:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Los_desastres_de_la_guerra
Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War 79: Truth is Dead, ca 1810-20,
etching, 7x9in.
FRANCISCO GOYA, Saturn Devouring
One of His Children, 18191823. Detail of
a detached fresco on canvas, full size
approx. 4 9 x 2 8. Museo del Prado
Madrid.

The horrors of both reason and


unreason. Monstrous side of humanity.
This painting is one of 14 in a series known
as the Black Paintings.

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