Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya and his illness

Francisco Josè de goya y lucientes (Fig. 1) was a painter endowed with a great expressive capacity. his work, which was carried out between the end of the Seventeenth and the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, covered a period of more than 60 years, with a massive production, a wide range of subjects and numerous techniques, clearly eclectic. oil paintings, etchings, drawings, lithographs wer...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828). Cat Fight (1786–1788).

magination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts, " wrote Goya in the subtitle of his etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Imagination, its origins and its limits, fascinated Goya and permeated his work, outweighing tradition and ranking him " first of the moderns. " Fantasy and invention marked the course of a career during w...

The Fifty-sixth Regular Meeting of the San Francisco Section

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828). Self-portrait with Doctor Arrieta (1820).

oya in gratitude to his friend Arrieta for the skill and care with which he saved his life in his acute and dangerous illness suffered at the end of the year 1819 at the age of 73. He painted it in 1820 " (1) reads the inscription at the bottom of Goya's self-portrait on this month's cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases. An affirmation of medical practice, the painting is also an acknowledgmen...

Goya and tinea favosa*

A case of a tinea favosa involving the scalp of a child represented in the painting "Boys climbing a tree" (Muchachos trepando a un árbol), by Francisco Goya y Lucientes, with pictorial representation of favic scutula and consequent alopecia.