A lot of famous artists earned notoriety thanks to dark subject matter. From Francisco Goya’s “Black Paintings” to Hieronymus Bosch’s nightmarish visions to Francis Bacon’s visceral figures, their ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...

As supreme mirages of dark delight and horror, Goya’s late paintings and etchings were probably inspired by the imagery of gothic novels, which he must have read either in English or French, for the ...

When Emmy-winning filmmaker James A. Castillo (Madrid Noir) set out to make The Quinta’s Ghost, he wasn’t adapting a historical anecdote. He was stepping into the mind of Francisco de Goya, trying to ...

PASADENA>> There’s more mystery to Francisco de Goya’s portrait of Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna, other than that it has never been seen on the west coast until this week. The painting, which depicts the ...

Twenty-three of the most extraordinary images you might wish for are on show at the Courtauld in London. You might wish for them, but you would scarcely be able to imagine them for yourself. The show ...