Francisco Goya: A Study of the Work and Personality, of the Eighteenth Century Spanish, Painter and Satirist (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Stokes, Hugh

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ISBN 10 : 1330583728 ISBN 13 : 9781330583722

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Baudelaire, and of artists, like Manet, proves that Goya was a formative influence of the first importance upon the French art of the nineteenth century. The biographies of Matheron andY riarte have become the foundation of what may be called the French tradition regarding the personality of Goya. Both authors accepted the romantic anecdotes of his youth, and the scandalous legends of his behaviour at the Court of Charles IV. His attitude towards Church andS tate they considered a logical result of his admiration of the political principles which governed the French Revolution. These biographical conclusions were fiercely controverted by Francisco Zapater, who published in 1868 a tiny booklet containing extracts from the correspondence between Goya and his father, Martin Zapater of Zaragoza. He could not have made use of the whole correspondence, which, if it has not been destroyed, may probably be a treasure for some future author. Writing for aC atholic journal (his pages were first issued hi La Perseverencia) he sketched the portrait of a hard-working youth, who certainly did not desert the God of his ancestors, had no desire to play skittles with the Ten Commandments, and was not only a good son, a truth which cannot be disputed, but a faithful husband a statement open to considerable doubt. Zapater smotive was praiseworthy, but he was an amateur historian who twisted his facts to suit his prejudices. The deeper we push our researches into Goya scareer the less able are we to agree with his thesis. Laurent Matheron appears to have visited Madrid, and much of his material is vouched for by first-hand evidence.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330583728
• ISBN 13: 9781330583722
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 514
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