The life of one of the most famous Spanish artists in history dramatically changed in the early 1790s because he became deaf due to an unidentified illness. Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was already one of the most sought-after artists in Spain at the time as he officially became the court painter in the country in 1786. …
Francisco Goya paintings
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), a man commonly referred to as Francisco Goya, was the most renowned artist of the Romantic era in Spain. He became the court painter of the Spanish Royal family in 1786 and he produced numerous paintings for the Spanish Crown during the first phase of his career. His …
The life of Francisco Goya (1746-1848), one of the most renowned Romantic artists in history, took a drastic turn for the worse in the early 1790s. A mysterious illness left him completely deaf, a condition that had a serious impact on his state of mind. Then Napoleon invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 1807 and he …