- Year Born/Died: 1746-1828
- City Born: Fuendetodos
- Significant Works: Saturn Eating His Children, The Clothed Maja, The Naked Maja
- Movement: Romanticism, Rococo
Francisco Goya is a Spanish artist commonly regarded as the final line of the Old Masters and the first of the contemporary ones. He was highly secretive, with little information regarding his private ideas surviving to the present day.However, a keen observer can deduce much from Goya’s works. His paintings became increasingly dreary and depressing as his life and society crumbled around him. Goya suffered a terrible sickness that rendered him virtually deaf while a merciless French onslaught attacked his homeland.
Goya’s set of 14 Black Paintings, created during his last days, exemplified the harsh and gloomy tones that characterized his later work. All paintings convey extreme human emotions, such as dread, panic, and anxiety, with scary or eerie overtones.
