EL PASEO DE LAS DELICIAS DE MADRID. FRANCISCO BAYEU Y SUBIAS.
A Goya Biography
Museo del Prado
1961 Goya biography
Galeria de Arte transparencias Ancora A Todo Color
1961 Goya biography
Galeria de Arte transparencias Ancora A Todo Color
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Francisco Jose de Goya de Lucientes was born in Fuendetodos, in the province of Saragossa on the 30th of March in 1746. His parents were Joseph Goya and Gracia Lucientes. It is difficult, in the life of this painter to discern what is truth and what is legend, because fantasy and reality are mixed in this life as in no other.
His childhood was spent in Fuendetodos where his parents and brothers and sisters lived in the family house, which bore the family crest of his mother, and which was surrounded by the dry lands, treeless and waterless where his father practiced his trade of gilder.
About 1749 the family bought a house in the City of Saragossa and some years later finally went to live in it. Then Goya attended the Escuelas Pias, a School where he formed a close friendship with Martin Zapater, whom he was never to forget and whose correspondence with him has become valuable documentary evidence. He then entered the studio of Jose Lujan, Academic painter, from whom he learnt the elementary steps of painting. We do not know how this period of his life gave birth to the Goyesque legend which supposes him to have fought bulls at the local bull fighting festivals; to have strummed the guitar gaily; and to have loved so violently and so often, that one of these affairs forced him to leave Saragossa and move to Madrid.
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