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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Goya: Painter of Terrible Splendor FROM OUR EDITORS
Whether one sees Goya as a morbid visionary or an honest chronicler of his time, the energy and passion in his work is clear to all. His talent recognized at a young age, Goya proved to be one of those rare individuals whose humble beginnings and subsequent rise to privilege enable them to see all the facets of the time in which they live. And he painted it all -- royalty, beautiful women, bullfighters, and war's victors and vanquished -- in intimate portraits and epic scenes.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Francisco Goya was privileged to witness the entire gamut of daily life in Spain at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries: the celebrations, traditions, hopes--and the evils, from decadence at court to the horrors of war. In Goya's art, kings and bullfighters, princesses and courtesans, murderers and victims all come alive.
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