Francisco GOYA (1746-1828) ✿

La Maja Vestida, 1802-1805

Francisco GOYA (1746-1828) Francisco José de Goya y  Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of his time.

"La mia opera è molto semplice. La mia arte rivela idealismo e verità.“"My work is very simple. My art reveals idealism and truth."
— Francisco Goya