Goya: The Romantic Pioneer Whose Paintings Took A Dark Turn | The Great Artists

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic paintings. But why? Perspective is YouTube's home for the arts....

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