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Francisco Bayeu
Bayeu, Francisco (bapt. Saragossa, 9 Mar. 1734; d Madrid, 4 Aug. 1795). Spanish painter. He had an eminently successful career, becoming court painter to Charles IV and director of the Academy of S. Fernando, but he is now remembered mainly because he was the brother-in-law of Goya, who spent... Read more |
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Francisco de Goya
Goya, Francisco de (b Fuendetodos, Aragon, 30 Mar. 1746; d Bordeaux, 16 Apr. 1828). Spanish painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He was the most powerful and original European artist of his time, but his genius was slow in maturing and he was well into his thirties before he began producing work... Read more |
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Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland 1903-80, English painter. Sutherland began his career as a painter at 35 and gained international acclaim with his paintings of war devastation. Among his major religious works are a tapestry for Coventry Cathedral and a series of paintings entitled Thorns. Realistically painted... Read more |
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Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (b Aelst, 14 Aug. 1502; d Brussels, 6 Dec. 1550). Netherlandish painter, architect, sculptor, designer of tapestries and stained glass, writer, and publisher. He was probably a pupil of Bernard van Orley in Brussels, but he was active mainly in Antwerp, where he became a... Read more |
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Bernard van Orley
Bernard van Orley , or Barend van Orley , c.1491-1542, Flemish painter. In 1515 he was settled in Brussels, where he became court painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands, and to her successor, Mary of Hungary. Influenced by Dürer and Raphael, van Orley may have gone to... Read more |
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Jean Baptiste Oudry
Jean Baptiste Oudry , 1686-1755, French animal painter. A pupil of Largillière, he became court painter to Louis XV, recording the king's hunts in his paintings and tapestry designs. He was also director of the Beauvais and the Gobelin tapestry works. He is known for his illustrations of La... Read more |
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Vicente Lopez y Portana
López y Portaña, Vicente (b Valencia, 19 Sept. 1772; d Madrid, 22 Apr. 1850). Spanish painter. He painted many different subjects but was primarily a portraitist, continuing the tradition of Mengs into the 19th century; his sitters included some of the leading Spanish personalities of his... Read more |
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Max Slevogt
Max Slevogt , 1868-1932, German painter. Slevogt, together with Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth, was among the principal exponents of German impressionism and was influenced by Millet and Courbet. A prolific painter, he attempted to capture movement through broad, informal brush work. His portrait... Read more |
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Goya: First painter to the Spanish court
...n Martinez, a painter of religious subjects...Bayeu brothers-Francisco, Manuel, and...success had preceded Goya's and who would...life. Unlike Francisco and Ramon Bayeu, Goya was denied admission...1775 at the Royal Tapestry ... |
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Seeing Madrid through Goya's art: Tracking down the painter in a city he...
...vision of Francisco de Goya you favor...their court painter. His shrewdly...Goya's tapestries It's hard...the Royal Tapestry Factory...The Royal Tapestry Factory is...carpets and tapestries ... |
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Small Truths Emerge From Goya Exhibit
`Goya: Truth and Fantasy...painting begins with Francisco de Goya, the great Spanish painter and printmaker. Nowhere...Here, in the exhibit "Goya: Truth and Fantasy...commissions and royal tapestry designs, portraits and... |
 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Meet Goya's Women: They Hang in D.C., In From Madrid.(Arts&Entertainment)
...of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746...virtuosity than the tapestries based on them...where we encounter Goya's most famous...to 1816, when Goya was much in demand...themes in the early ... |
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Goya: Pain in Spain; Prado Exhibit Shows His World Going Down the Drain
For Francisco Goya, Spain's great...and makes him a painter of universal appeal, although few painters are as closely...particular town as Goya is with Madrid...other Spanish painter has. Madrid...Or to study ... |
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Goya Exhibit at National Gallery
...independent-minded Francisco Goya, painter to the royal court...works in a show called "Goya: Images of Women...through June 2. In Goya's time majas were attractive...lithographs, drawings, tapestries and the paintings ... |
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Interview: Janis Tomlinson discusses the collection of Goya works on display...
...discusses the collection of Goya works on display at the...created by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya just went on view at the...because here you had Goya's "Naked Maja" in...his earlier paintings, tapestry designs, etc. ... |
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Goya's unsettling 200-year-old prints suitable for our times.(ENTERTAINMENT)
...greatest artist, Francisco Goya, is a man for...designer of tapestries and royal portraits...fierce satirist, painter of ghoulish...conscience. Goya is especially...We are in Goya's country...The Prints of ... |
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Women: 'the male gaze' A Goya show at the National Gallery of Art follows up...
...experimentation - painters and sculptors achieved...Gallery has mounted Goya: Images of Women, through June 2. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes worked...Spanish crown, Goya made a name for himself as a tapestry designer and ... |
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Brush with an inky soul; Art history.(biography of Francisco Goya)(Book Review)
...detailed new book about Goya (1746-1828) paints...much misunderstood FRANCISCO GOYA is an artist we identify...an intellectual. Goya had a halting start...provincial Saragossa. A painter friend, whose sister...capital, designing ... |
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