Goya [antikvár]

Introduction The paintings of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes are among the most unique and defining valúes of the Prado, both in artistic and historical terms, and the sum of his works in all media amounts to a specific museum within the Museum. There are almost 150 pictures by him, and that corpus, combined with the Museum's holdings of more than 500 drawings and the etchings series, ren-ders it possible to study here better than anywhere else one of the greatest personalices in Spanish painting and indeed in world art. Goya's canvases are valuable by themselves; but an additional boon of the Prado col-lection lies in the chance it affords to view them in the context of Spanish painting, of Velázquez and Murillo, whom Goya profoundly admired, and of the great Euro-pean artists whose works he had known since youth, such as Titian, Rubens, Tiepolo or Mengs. Goya's ap-proach connects smoothly with the last tendencies of the eighteenth century, so that his early style may be compared to French rococo, or to such a belated sequel of Italian classical baroque as may be found in Corrado