Complete Series of Goya’s “The Disasters of the War” on View at The Diocesan Museum

BARCELONA.- Ibercaja, together with the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona, has organised this exhibition of the first complete series of “The Disasters of the War”: 80 engravings of the Aragonese painter Francisco Goya Lucientes (Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828). These were painted during the Spanish Independence War, between 1810 and 1814, and are a graphical chronicle of those tragic events. However, Goya far-reaches the events and his existential and vital adventure, and he uses his art to make a declaration [...]

Jovellanos’s portrait of a woman hidden under the paint

Oviedo (Spain) This discovery has been possible to apply on the table, which is in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, in Oviedo, a technique of X-ray and reflectography. The portrait of Jovellanos in the sand of San Lorenzo (1780-1782), painted by Francisco de Goya, concealed under another painting, that of a young woman whose identity is unknown, also the work of the Aragonese artist. This discovery has been possible to apply on the table, which is in the [...]

200 Prints by Francisco de Goya, From His Most Important Series, on View in Valladolid

VALLADOLID.- The Municipal Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Passion in Valladolid, is hosting through 16 January 2011, 200 prints by Francisco de Goya, belonging to the complete series of “Los Caprichos”, “The Disasters of War “and “Bullfight”, in an exhibition titled “Goya, The genius of a writer.” The show delves into the particular interpretation of Spain that the great Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) made at the time. Throughout his career his expertise was evident in all genres ranging from [...]

Fall Focus on Spanish Art through Two Frick Presentations

NEW YORK, NY.- The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century—Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them—created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically “Spanish manner,” will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick Collection in the fall of 2010. The presentation will feature more than fifty of the finest Spanish drawings from public and private collections in the Northeast, among them The Metropolitan Museum of [...]

Dali Exhibit Opens in Mexico

MEXICO CITY.- The work and life of Spanish surrealism genius Salvador Dali, who died 21 years ago, is being remembered in the southeastern Mexican city of Merida with an exhibition of 93 of the artist’s engravings. “Dali en Merida. Las miradas del sueño” (Dali in Merida: Views of a Dream) will be held at Merida’s Olimpo Cultural Center, where the public will be able to enter free until March 23, municipal culture director Roger Metri told Efe. Present at the [...]

Leopold Museum Explores Love, Fear and Death in Edvard Munch’s Work

VIENNA.- Edvard Munch, one of the most important European artists, stands at the center of the main autumn exhibition of the Leopold Museum. The themes of love, fear and death dominate Munch’s oeuvre. The symbol-laden atmosphere lends many of his works an air of uncanniness. The artist’s emotional states and inner conflict manifest themselves in drastic pictorial inventions, such as in the works “Angst” and “The Scream.” Tragedy in a sexual relationship becomes clear in the painting “Vampire,” in which [...]