Goya [antikvár]

Introduction The paintings of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes are among the most singular and defining values of the Prado, both in artistic and historical terms, and the sum of his paintings, drawings, and prints amounts to a monographic museum within the Museum itself The nearly 150 works from his hand make it possible to study in depth, better here than anywhere else, one of the greatest artists of the Spanish school and indeed in world art. The Prado also houses 500 of his drawings and the series of his prints. The Museum's collection of Goya's paintings is valuable for the works themselves, but the interest of this collection also lies in the unique possibility it provides for studying his work in the context of Spanish painting in general, of Velázquez and Murillo, whom Goya deeply admired, and of the great European artists whose works he had known since his youth, Titian, Rubens, Tiepolo, and Mengs. Goya's painting connects easily with the tendencies of late eighteenth-century art and, consequently, with French Rococo or the late derivations of Italian Baroque art, such as the work of Gorrado Giaquinto, and comparisons may be made with Goya's earlier style in order truly to understand what he owed to tradition and what was modern about his concept of painting.