Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Painter
Elsa Furtado Reporting (Text and Photos)
S will 80 etchings by Francisco Goya, which will be made available to the public in the next two months in the West Turret of the Palace Square in Lisbon.
The show entitled Goya’s Caprichos , is part of the collection of the Museo Casa Palacio in Cuenca, and includes a set of four series. Initially set up under the project of the Goals for the Millennium Development Goals (2000/2015), promoted by UNESCO at the initiative of Francisco de la Fuente, the collection now goes on tour.
The pictures are divided into several sections, along which you can learn about life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the trace of Goya, a satirized a way.
They are mothers, beggars, medical, religious, rich, poor, between so many other figures, we can see in these pictures, represented as donkeys, monkeys, or other animals.
The fears, addictions, superstitions and ill-treatment also occupy a large part of the works now on display, and whose criticism is revealed as current as at the time were drawn.
Among the prints gifts, especially a Goya self-portrait and the original board, utilized in the reproduction. Accompanying the images subtitles written by Goya himself for each one (here reproduced in English, Spanish and Portuguese).
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was born in Spain in 1746 and died in France in 1828. It was painter and recorder, Romantic movement and founder of Impressionism precursor. Much of his work can be seen in the Prado Museum in Madrid, the city where he lived and worked for several years
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In Portugal, the show is a WOW project (which responsible for the management and promotion of the collection in the coming years), in partnership with the ENP, and has the support of UNESCO and the Fundació Fòrum les Universal Cultures, and some of the money (10%) reverts to the NGO R & amp; D Factor -. Association for Cooperation on Population and Development
Goya’s Caprichos can be seen from Monday to Sunday from 10h00 to 19h00 ( last entry at 18.30) until May 12, in the West Turret Palace Square in Lisbon.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the venue, and cost 7 euros (adults), 3, 50 euros (young people, students and seniors) and is free for children up to 6 years. There are also special prices for families and combined with the FMR exhibition, currently open to the public at the National Museum of Ancient Art.
After Lisbon, the exhibition goes on tour for two Portuguese cities, yet to be defined, being the Port one of the possibilities, according to said Paulo Dias, director -. General of WOW, when the presentation to the press
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