Great Goya Etchings: The Proverbs, the Tauromaquia and the Bulls of Bordeaux (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Francisco Goya

Author:Francisco Goya [Goya, Francisco]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Arts & Photography, History & Criticism, Criticism, History, Individual Artists, Artists' Books, Other Media, Prints, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Art, Art History, Regional, European
ISBN: 9780486156743
Amazon: B00A44COI8
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

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One could cite many other masterpieces in the published series, but it is harder to do this among the seven discarded subjects first published in 1876 at Paris, where Goya’s copper plates had temporarily wandered before they were finally sold to the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1921). Yet plate 38—marked as (extra plate) E by its publisher, Loizelet—has a dramatic scene very little inferior to Plate 32 of the first series, and the forty-first plate (Albertina), which is extremely rare—and was never published—is little inferior to Plate 18, for which it must have been a trial design.

The unpublished aquatint that Goya’s bibliographer Loÿs Delteil lists next (not reproduced here), together with Plate 31 of the regular series, served Goya much later as a model for the most famous lithograph of his last productive period. “The divided ring” of The Bulls of Bordeaux series reproduces the important elements from each of these aquatints to supply the major elements in the two halves of that large print. This was a habit of Goya throughout his life. He did not mind repeating his own favorite ideas, and even whole compositions, any more than he found it improper to borrow the ideas of other artists, and to improve upon them.

There is plenty of vitality and violence in the Tauromaquia aquatints, but they are the only wholly reportorial Goya print series. They contain no fantastic imagination, nor any political or anticlerical meaning that can be observed.

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