History Creator / FranciscoDeGoya

* He's the main protagonist of ''Film/GoyasGhosts'' directed by Creator/MilosForman. Goya was portrayed by Swedish actor Creator/Follow
Creator/StellanSkarsgård.

* He's the main protagonist of ''Film/GoyasGhosts'' directed by Creator/MilosForman. Goya was portrayed by Spanish actor Creator/JavierBardem.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He is famous for making several paintings and drawings that show the time period he lived in, WartsAndAll. His masterpiece ''The Third Of May, 1808'' is one of the most iconic anti-war statements in art, along with his gruesome series of drawings, ''Los Desastres De La Guerra'' (''The Disasters Of War''), which depicted the Napoleonic Wars that ravaged his country. Around his 40th birthday, an illness rendered him deaf, which made him more withdrawn and introspective. In effect, this made his art DarkerAndEdgier too, with lots of NightmareFuel scenes showing his scorn and fear of war, religious fanaticism, and mental illness.

* ''Art/{{Inquisition}}'' (Spanish: ''Inquisición'')

* ''Art/{{Inquisition}}''' (Spanish: ''Inquisición'')

* ''Art/TheSleepOfReasonProducesMonsters'' (Spanish: ''El sueño de la razón produce monstruos'')

* ''Art/WitchesSabbath1798'' (Spanish: ''El Aquelarre'')

** ''SaturnDevouringHisSon'' (Spanish: ''Saturno devorando a su hijo'')

* ''Art/TheThirdOfMay1808''
* ''Art/BlackPaintings''
** ''SaturnDevouringHisSon''
* ''Art/HorrorsOfWar''
* ''Art/TheSleepOfReasonProducesMonsters''

** ''Art/TheThirdOfMay1808''
* ''Art/BlackPaintings''
** ''SaturnDevouringHisSon''

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He is famous for making several paintings and drawings that show the time period he lived in, WartsAndAll. His masterpiece ''The Third Of May, 1808'' is one of the most iconic anti-war statements in art, along with his gruesome series of drawings, ''Los Desastres De La Guerra'' (''The Disasters Of War''), which depicted the Napoleonic Wars that ravaged his country. Around his 40th birthday an illness rendered him deaf, which made him more withdrawn and introspective. In effect this made his art DarkerAndEdgier too, with lots of NightmareFuel scenes showing his scorn and fear of war, religious fanaticism and mental illness.

Art critic Robert Hughes made a notable documentary about him, [[https://vimeo.com/112175714 "Goya: Crazy Like A Genius"]], which gives interesting insight into his life and art.

* BodyHorror: ''Saturn Devouring His Son'' and ''The Disasters Of War'' show a lot of MalevolentMutilation. Other art works also show his fascination with deformity.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Two versions of ''Maja'' exist, one where she is nude and another where she is clothed. Some art historians, however, believe this to be a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], speculating that the original intention was for the clothed ''Maja'' to be placed in front of the nude, so that it could be pulled back to reveal the latter as an outlet for sexual titillation.

* WarIsHell: ''Los Desastres de la Guerra'' (''The Horrors of War'') are a series of drawings depicting tortures, rapes and executions during the Napoleonic wars in Spain.

* He's the main protagonist of ''Goya's Ghosts'' directed by Creator/MilosForman. Goya was portrayed by Spanish actor Creator/JavierBardem.

* The 2022 horror game, ''VideoGame/{{Impasto}}'', has its graphics inspired by the art of Goya. The player character is Goya's grandson, Mariano Goya, who somehow found himself in the world of his grandfather's artworks, with the very last monstrosity encountered being Saturn from ''Saturn Devouring His Son''.

** Music/PeterGabriel's 1992 song [[Music/{{Us}} "Fourteen Black Paintings"]] is based around the Black Paintings, connecting them to his own personal trials and tribulations at the time of recording.

* The 2022 horror game, ''VideoGame/{{Impasto}}'', have it's graphics inspired by the art of Goya. The player character is Goya's grandson, Mariano Goya, who somehow found himself in the world of his grandfather's artworks, with the very last monstrosity encountered being Saturn from ''Saturn Devouring His Son''.

** The film ''Goya's Ghosts'' is about the painter's life, but halfway the story he becomes a case of WhatHappenedToTheMouse, as the other characters around him become more vital and important to the plot.

* The 2022 horror game, ''VideoGame/{{Impasto}}'', have it's graphics inspired by the art of Goya. The player character is Goya's grandson, Mariano Goya, who somehow found himself in the world of his grandfather's artworks, with one of the bosses being a monster resembling ''Saturn Devouring His Son''.

* The episode "Tiempo de ilustrados" in the third season of ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'' had Goya (played by Pedro Casablanc) trying to repaint ''The Nude Maja'' after a cult known as Exterminating Angels tried to destroy it.

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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Goya was not an atheist, but he despised superstition. One of his most iconic works is ''The Sleep Of Reason Breeds Monsters'', showing a man symbolizing reasonable thought, fast asleep, while behind him various creepy bats, owls and other monsters emerge out of the darkness. Others have also taken [[{{Applicability}} that image to be ambiguous]], considering that so many of Goya's later paintings had supernatural subjects. Some believe that Goya is saying that flights of fancy are unreasonable but also the source of art, i.e. artistic work is a form of madness and a "sleep of reason" too.

* BatScare: Bats and owls are seen in ''The Sleep Of Reason Breeds Monsters''.

* CreatorCameo: Goya portrayed himself on the family portrait of Carlos IV and his family, as a ShoutOut to Diego Velazquez' ''Las Meninas''.

* Similar to ''Maja'' above, ''Volav%C3%A9runt'' is a French-Spanish historical drama about the relationship between Goya and Maria. Goya is played by Jorge Perugorria.

* The 1958 film ''The Naked Maja'' focuses on Francisco's romance with Maria Cayetana de Silva (the Duchess of Alba). He was played by American actor AnthonyFranciosca

* WorldOfSymbolism: Many of his paintings are allegories.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** His painting of ''The Nude Maja'' shows a woman in a full frontal nude pose without any pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning; some art historians even speculated that it was meant to be pornographic. It's also notable for showing female pubic hair for the first time in Western painting.
** His portrait of the Spanish king Carlos IV and his family has been observed as a subtle unflattering TakeThat to the king and his family members.

* GerneTurningPoint: ''The Third of May 1808'', with its deviation from both conventions of Christian art and traditions of more glamorous depictions of war (opting instead to show that WarIsHell in startlingly vivid detail), is widely considered one of many paintings that heralded the end of the "classic" era of art and the start of the "modern" era.