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Francisco de Goya

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Francisco de Goya (Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 30 March 1746 – Bordeaux, France, 15 April 1828)^[1] was an Aragonese painter and engraver.

His work includes easel and mural painting, printmaking, and drawing.

Francisco de Goya – Father of Unflinching Spanish Realism

In all these facets, he developed a style that opens into Romanticism.^[2] His contribution also represents the beginning of contemporary painting and is considered a precursor of the avant-garde painting of the twentieth century.

After training in his homeland in the late Baroque style, in 1770 he traveled to Italy where he came into contact with a nascent Neoclassicism.

This style was adopted when he went to Madrid in the mid-1770s, to which he added a more Rococo picturesqueness of customs as a result of his new job as a painter of cartoons for tapestries for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Francisco Goya: Biography Artist, Famous Paintings, Artworks ... BUZ