Goya

Informationen zum Autor Enriqueta Harris, former Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute, University of London, is a world-renowned expert on Spanish art. She has curated numerous exhibitions and is the author of Velazquez (Phaidon, 1982). Klappentext Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain's most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of Spanish people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goya's moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age. 'Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers.' (Independent) Zusammenfassung Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain’s most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of Spanish people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goya’s moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age.

Product details

• Authors: Enriqueta Harris, Enriquetta Harris, Harris Enriqueta
• Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1994
• EAN: 9780714829753
• ISBN: 978-0-7148-2975-3
• Dimensions: 225 mm x 303 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Colour Library; Phaidon Colour Library; F A CL BROCHE; Colour Library; F A CL BROCHE; Phaidon Colour Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Prints, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Prints & printmaking, Individual artists, art monographs, C 1700 To C 1800, Prints and printmaking, Paintings and painting