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Black Paintings
The Black Paintings (Spanish: ''Pinturas negras'') is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, probably between 1820 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two-storey house outside Madrid that was called '' Quinta del Sordo'' (''Deaf Man's Villa''). It is thought that Goya began the paintings in the following year. Although the house had been named after the previous owner, who was deaf, Goya too was nearly deaf at the time as a result of an unknown illness he had suffered when he was 46. The paintings originally were painted as murals on the walls of the house, later being "hacked off" the walls and attached to canvas by owner Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger. They are now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. After the Napoleonic Wars and the internal turmoil of the changing Spanish government, Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinta Del Sordo 1900
Quinta may refer to: * Quinta (estate) in Portugal * Quinta (musician), British multi-instrumentalist * In medieval music theory, alternative term for diapente (perfect fifth) * ''Quinta'' (skipper), genus of butterflies * Claudia Quinta, Roman matron * Quintus (vocal music), fifth voice in polyphony * Quinta Brunson, writer and comedian * shorthand for Biblia Hebraica Quinta, standard Hebrew Bible text * Quinta, Cuba an alternative name for La Quinta, Cuba * Quinta Market a market located in Quiapo, Manila See also * Tropical Cyclone Quinta, a typhoon name used in The Philippines by PAGASA The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (, abbreviated as PAGASA , which means "hope" as in the Tagalog language, Tagalog word ''pag-asa'') is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS ... * La Quinta (other) * Quinta da Beloura, an affluent gated community and golf resort located in Linhó, Sintra, on the Portuguese R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Pilgrimage To San Isidro
''A Pilgrimage to San Isidro'' (Spanish: ''La romería de San Isidro'') is one of the ''Black Paintings'' painted by Francisco de Goya between 1819–23 on the interior walls of the house known as Quinta del Sordo ("The House of the Deaf Man") that he purchased in 1819. It probably occupied a wall on the first floor of the house, opposite ''Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat), The Great He-Goat''. Like the other ''Black Paintings'', it was Transfer of panel paintings, transferred to canvas in 1873–74 under the supervision of Salvador Martínez Cubells, a curator at the Museo del Prado. The owner, Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger, Baron Emile d'Erlanger, donated the canvases to the Spanish state in 1881, and they are now on display at the Museo del Prado. ''A Pilgrimage to San Isidro'' shows a view of the pilgrimage towards Isidore the Laborer, San Isidro's Hermitage of Madrid that is totally opposite to Goya's treatment of the same subject thirty years earlier in ''The Meadow of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trienio Liberal
The , () or Three Liberal Years, was a period of three years in Spain between 1820 and 1823 when a liberal government ruled Spain after a military uprising in January 1820 by the lieutenant-colonel Rafael del Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII. It ended in 1823 when, with the approval of the crowned heads of Europe, a French army invaded Spain and reinstated the King's absolute power. This invasion is known in France as the "Spanish Expedition" () and in Spain as the " Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis." Revolution of Cabezas de San Juan King Ferdinand VII provoked widespread unrest, particularly in the army, by refusing to accept the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812. The King sought to reclaim the Spanish colonies in the Americas that had recently revolted successfully, consequently depriving Spain of an essential source of revenue. In January 1820, soldiers assembled at Cádiz for an expedition to South America, angry over infrequent pay, bad foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leocadia Zorrilla
Leocadia Zorrilla, married name Leocadia Weiss (9 December 1788, Madrid – 7 August 1856, Madrid), was the old-age companion of Spanish painter Francisco Goya, and mother of the artist Rosario Weiss Zorrilla. Life Leocadia was orphaned at an early age and her education was provided by her aunt, Juana Galarza. Much of her early life is presumed, rather than known. She apparently met Goya in 1805, at the wedding of his son, Javier, to her cousin, Gumersinda Goicoechea Galarza. In 1807, Leocadia married Isidore Weiss, a Jewish-German jeweler whose family lived in Madrid, and they settled into his parents' home. While living there, she gave birth to two children: Joaquín (1808) and Guillermo (1811). However, in 1811, Weiss had sworn out a legal document accusing her of "illicit conduct", and they separated. Leocadia gave birth to a third child, Rosario, in 1814. Speculation has focused on the possibility of Goya as Rosario's father. This has not been firmly established, but it ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segovia
Segovia ( , , ) is a city in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia. Segovia is located in the Meseta central, Inner Plateau of the Iberian Peninsula, near the northern slopes of the Sistema Central mountain range. Housing is nestled on a bend of the Eresma River, Eresma river. The city is famous for its historic buildings including three main landmarks: Aqueduct of Segovia, its midtown Roman aqueduct, Segovia Cathedral, its cathedral (one of the last ones to be built in Europe following a Gothic style), and the Alcázar of Segovia (a fortress). The city center was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. Etymology The name of Segovia is of Celtiberians, Celtiberian origin. Although historians have linked its old name to ', the discovery of the original Ancient Rome, Roman city of Segobriga near Saelices discarded this possibility. The name of "S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Manzanares
The Manzanares () is a river in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, which flows from the Sierra de Guadarrama, passes through Madrid, and eventually empties into the Jarama river, which in turn is a right-bank tributary to the Tagus. In its urban section, the Manzanares River was modified to create a section of water several meters deep, in some parts navigable by canoes. This project of channeling and damming has been partially reversed in a re-naturalization project. Hydronym The name of Manzanares was in use already in the 16th century, although up until the 17th century alternative names such as Guadarrama, Henarejos, and Jarama were used. It was widely popularised by the height of the 18th century. The origin of the name for the river and the village of the same name through which it flows (founded not earlier than the 13th century) is moot. Course Sources The Manzanares has its sources in the southern slope of the , a branch of the Sierra de Guadarrama (the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asmodea
''Asmodea'' or ''Fantastic Vision'' (Spanish: ''Visión fantástica'') are names given to a fresco painting likely completed between 1820 and 1823Licht, 159 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It shows two flying figures hovering over a landscape dominated by a large tabled mountain.Junquera, 72 ''Asmodea'' is one of Goya's 14 ''Black Paintings''—his last major series—which, in mental and physical despair, he painted at the end of his life directly onto the walls of his house, the Quinta del Sordo, outside Madrid. No written or oral record survives as to the series' intended meaning, and it is probable that they were never intended to be seen by those outside his then small immediate circle. Goya did not name any of the works in the series; the title of ''Asmodea'' was later given by his friend, the Spanish painter Antonio Brugada. The title is likely a feminine naming of the demon king Asmodeus from the Book of Tobias. However, according tLópez Vásquezfirst anMoffittlate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Leocadia
''La Leocadia'' (Spanish: ''Doña Leocadia'') or ''The Seductress'' (Spanish: ''Una Manola'')Havard (2007), p. 66 are names given to a mural by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed sometime between 1819–1823, as one of his series of 14 ''Black Paintings''. It shows Leocadia Weiss, his maid and likely his lover. She is dressed in a dark, almost funeral maja dress and leans against what is either a mantelpiece or burial mound as she looks outward at the viewer with a sorrowful expression. ''La Leocadia'' was one of the final of the ''Black Paintings'' to be completed, a series that he painted, in his seventies at a time when he was consumed by political, physical and psychological turmoil after he fled to the country from his position as court painter in Madrid. According to the c. 1828–1830 inventory of his friend Antonio Brugada, ''Leocadia'' was situated in the ground floor of Quinta del Sordo, Goya's villa which Lawrence Gowing observes was thematically divided: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturn Devouring His Son
''Saturn Devouring His Son'' is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The work is one of the 14 so-called '' Black Paintings'' that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house some time between 1820 and 1823. It was transferred to canvas after Goya's death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The painting is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn, eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him. Like all of the ''Black Paintings'', it was not originally intended for public consumption and Goya did not provide a title or notes. Thus, its interpretation is disputed. Backstory In 1819, Goya purchased a house on the banks of Manzanares near Madrid called Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man). It was a two-story house which was named after a previous occupant who had been deaf, although the name was fitting for Goya too, who had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
