Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, "The Third of May 1808" (1814), oil on canvas, 106 x 137 inches, in the collection of the Museo del Prado (image via Wikimedia Commons) Success! Your account was created ...

The romantic brushstrokes and stark realities in Francisco Goya’s The Third of May (1814), a pivotal canvas depicting the public executions of Spanish freedom fighters by French troops, solidified its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. If Halloween had an official artist, it would undoubtedly be Francisco Goya ...

Looking ahead to the bicentennial of the death of Francisco Goya (1746–1828), New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library is opening a new Goya Research Center dedicated to the Spanish artist in ...

Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote ...

If it’s a truism that art reflects the surroundings and the time that it’s made, there’s another accompanying truth equally durable: All artists have to navigate in the surroundings they work in. Da ...

Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these ...

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has assembled one of the largest exhibits of Goya's artwork ever seen in the U.S. His paintings, prints and drawings range in technique from exquisitely refined to raw.

In 1792, Spanish artist Francisco Jose Goya y Lucientes became critically ill. He remained infirm for more than two years. Upon his recovery, King Charles IV’s brilliant court painter, who had charmed ...