06 June 2009

A little light relief courtesy of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes


Presentiments of things to come - from "Disasters of War"


La Leocadia - A portrait of Leocadia Weiss. One of his "Black Paintings"

The Duchess of Alba

7 comments:

Nevin said...

First painting is really powerful. It says it all about how horrible wars can be.... Sometimes we tend to forget...

beakerkin said...

If you had a better print of the last painting and looked at the foreground there is an interesting message in Spanish in that painting.

jams o donnell said...

Nevin, Goya's Disasters of War are possibly the most powerful indictments of war.

Thanks Beakerkin. I'll have to see. There was a close relationsheip between Goya and the Duchess.

beakerkin said...

It may have been only in the mind of the artist. Follow her finger for the message.

jams o donnell said...

There seems to have been something between the two. Maybe not sexual but a platonic relationship

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

I always liked that Duchess of Alba painting.

jams o donnell said...

It is a fine painting. If I had chosen a better quality image we would have seen Goya's message