GOYA: The Romantic Pioneer Whose Paintings Took A Dark Turn | The Great Artists | Perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIJZI1IvDRE Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic paintings. But why? RELATED CONTENT:

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John Keats: documentary (2014)

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“A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucious to Twitter” – Andrew HUI

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