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"This volume offers an introduction to the work of Francisco Goya and covers all aspects of his work: oil, fresco, etching, lithography, chalk and pen. In his lifetime, Goya worked for some of the most prestigious Spanish patrons. For most of his career he was court painter, and yet he also produced some of the most compelling images of social unrest of the last century. The book opens with an introduction to the artistic milieu in Saragossa, where Goya received his earliest training. It moves on to explain the growth of his career in Madrid where he eventually became the most prominent painter at court before and after the French occupation of his country. Throughout the text, Goya's work is set in its political and social context. The work ends with a discussion of his influence on such artists as Manet, Ensor and Picasso. Enriqueta Harris is the author of ""Velazquez""."

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Francisco Goya has long enjoyed heroic status. A pre-eminent artist of the Enlightenment, he stood out against the forces of political oppression, and his art has usually been viewed in the light of this stance. What Janis Tomlinson does, however, is to avoid this interpretation and, through a fresh and innovative perspective on Goya's major paintings, position him more accurately within the intellectual, artistic and social changes of the times through which he lived - those of the French Revolution and its effect on Spain. As a result we see him as not merely reacting to great events, but also to the ideology of a period of transition and ambivalence. Her thoroughly researched account, therefore, gives us a more balanced view of this important artist. (Kirkus UK)

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