Yet it isn't portraits of royalty for which he is best remembered, but for his brutal and moving masterpiece The Third of May 1808. 1. The painting commemorates a dark moment in Spanish history. ...

The Third of May 1808 predates Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa by only five years but it has the same emotional charge and engagement with the politics of the day. It was, wrote art historian ...

“The Third of May, 1808” (El Tres de Mayo, 1808), oil on canvas, 106 inches × 137 inches) was painted by Francisco de Goya in 1814 depicting a rebellion by Madrid citizens against the French ...