Spanish Romantic Francisco Goya was the court artist to the Spanish crown through highs and lows. Yet it isn't portraits of royalty for which he is best remembered, but for his brutal and moving ...

Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808 (1814). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Goya started his practice at 14, apprenticing under a forgotten painter.

The subject of Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808” ... “It’s a work of today, of Ukraine, of all wars,” says Gudrun Maurer of the Prado museum in Madrid, where it hangs.

Goya had been on hand for the French invasion, which, in 1814, informed two astounding paintings of an uprising fomented by the dethroned Ferdinand VII, “The Third of May 1808” and “The ...

Art & Exhibitions Sigmar Polke Meets His Artistic Hero Francisco de Goya at the Museo del Prado. It's the German artist's first solo exhibition in the Spanish capital.

However, the Prado has not wanted to give up the great contemporary art that draws from its own collections. Two years ago, it organized an exhibition on Fernando Zóbel, who spent long days at ...