The 20th-century French novelist André Malraux proclaimed that "modern art begins" with the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Born in 1746 in the Spanish province of Aragon, the fiercely ...

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) was ahead of his time and ... but the deafness he suffered from 1792 and the impression caused by the War of Independence profoundly marked his life and his work.