Caprichos de Goya on display in Lisbon – Cinnamon & Hortela

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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