Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos: Their Hidden Truth

Arts & Photography

Goya, Francisco

Graphic Design

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Francisco Goya's "Letters of Love and Friendship" to Martin Zapater establish a connection between Goya's private life and his work. The correspondence reflects the painter's daily life in Madrid during the period from 1775 to 1800. He refers to friends and colleagues, entertainers, bullfighters and work in progress. The letters are translated within the context of their time and the translator provides biographical data and notes explaining difficult, archaic or dialectal words and expressions. The bibliography should make this text relevant to interdisciplinary scholars of Goya and to those specializing in 18th-century studies.

Francisco Goya

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

St.Martin's Press

The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to immortalize them in a series of etchings. The artist himself never saw the results. The etchings were not published until 1863, some 35 years after his death. By then, the passions of the Napoleonic era had subsided and the satirical implications in Goya's work were less likely to offend. The Dover edition reproduces in its original size the second state of this first edition, which contained 80 prints. Three additional prints not in the 1863 edition are also included here, making this the most complete collection possible of the etchings Goya intended for this series. The bitter, biting captions are reprinted, along with the new English translations, as are the original title page and preface.

The Disasters of War (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

History & Criticism

Dover Publications

After a serious illness in 1792, Goya spent five years recuperating and preparing himself for the burst of creativity that was to follow. He read deeply in the French revolutionary philosophers. From Rousseau he evolved the idea that imagination divorced from reason produces monsters, but that coupled with reason "it is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders." In Spain he saw a country that had abandoned reason, and he peopled Los Caprichos with the grotesque monsters that result from such an action. Plate after plate shows witches, asses, devils, and other strange creatures, many of which are caricatures of members of the society against which Goya was fighting. The plates were first published in 1799. There are still in existence, however, six extremely rare sets of artist's proofs, considered by most who have managed to see them as infinitely superior to the work actually published. Now, for the first time, this edition reproduces one of these sets of 80 prints, together with the "Prado" manuscript, a commentary on the plates. In addition, this collection contains supplementary material to the Los Caprichos series, inlcuding a never-before-published study for Caprichos 10; three unique proofs of plates probably intended for publication with the others; a preliminary drawing for plate I, a self-portrait of Goya (which appears as the frontispiece to this volume); and a unique proof of "Woman in Prison" which may represent an earlier version of Caprichos 32.

Los Caprichos (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Stapled wrap shelfworn and rubbed. Sticker damage to front.

Goya Drawings: 44 Plates by Francisco Goya

Dover Pubns

Splendid reproductions of works by one of the world's greatest portraitists, among them The Parasol, The Duchess of Alba, The Third of May, and The Maja Clothed, 12 more.

Goya: 16 Art Stickers (Dover Art Stickers)

Individual Artists

A stunning gallery of Goya's later works, this lavish volume presents prints from The Proverbs, La Tauromaquia, and The Bulls of Bordeaux. Its 78 etchings recapture the incomparable grandeur of Goya's art as well as the major themes of his works — the Bible, human folly, and the brutal pageantry of bullfighting. Savage yet sympathetic, the nightmare visions of The Proverbs are among Goya's most enigmatic works. The realism of La Tauromaquia and The Bulls of Bordeaux is similarly striking, with remarkably accurate images of bulls and fighters. Each etching appears with the original caption and an English translation. Additional text sheds light on the life and times of the great Spanish master. Students, collectors, and other art lovers will prize this magnificently reproduced edition, which is also the lowest-priced collection of Goya's etchings.

Great Goya Etchings: The Proverbs, The Tauromaquia and The Bulls of Bordeaux (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Goya

Richly illustrated and filled with new information, this updated version of the great Spanish artist uses nearly 300 full color illustrations to retrace GoyaÆs life and career, organizing his life into the various genres and mediums in which he worked.

LICHT, Fred

Abbeville Press

Traces the life of the Spanish artist, analyzes his works, and explains the historical and social context of his painting

Goya: A Genius Defined by Passion--His Life in Paintings

Rapelli, Paola

DK Pub.

Paintings, drawings and prints;

Folio Society

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Goya, Francisco. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Goya, Francisco