Romantics Realists Goya (2000)

In 1792 a famous Spanish portraitist fell victim to an illness that left him permanently deaf This was the event that proved the turningpoint in the career of Francisco Jose Goya y Lucientes Trapped in his silent world Goyas portraiture climbed to new heights of achievement but it was his increasingly dark images that are most appreciated today The sheer horror of much of Goyas later work was unprecedented in Western Art and it is these paintings and etchings that secure his status as a giant of the Romantic Age