Goya : Images of Women

by Edited by Janis A. Tomlinson; With contributions by Francisco Calvo Serraller, A

• ISBN13: 9780300094930
• ISBN10: 0300094930
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) created magnificent paintings, tapestry designs, prints, and drawings over the course of his long and productive career. Women frequently appeared as the subjects of Goya's works, from his brilliantly painted cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory to his stunning portraits of some of the most powerful women in Madrid. This groundbreaking book is the first to examine the representations of women within Goya's multifaceted art, and in so doing, it sheds new light on the evolution of his artistic creativity as well as on the roles assumed by women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spain.

Many of Goya's most famous works are featured and explicated in this beautifully designed and produced book. The artist's famous tapestry cartoons are included, along with the tapestries woven after them for the royal palaces of the Prado and the Escorial. Goya's infamous Naked Maja and Clothed Maja are also highlighted, with a discussion on whether these works were painted at the same time and how they might have originally

Table of Contents

Directors' Forewords	6	(4)
Acknowledgments	10	(3)
Lenders to the Exhibition	13	(2)
Goya: Images of Women	15	(10)
Janis A. Tomlinson
Goya's Women in Perspective	25	(26)
Francisco Calvo Serraller
Images of Women in Goya's Prints and Drawings	51	(20)
Janis A. Tomlinson
Fashioning the Feminine: Dress in Goya's Portraits of Women	71	(18)
Aileen Ribeiro
An Introduction to Goya's Cartoons and Tapestries	89	(215)
Concha Herrero Carretero
Catalogue
Tapestries Cartoons, and Paintings	103	(43)
Portraits	146	(69)
Genre Scenes and Gentlemen's Paintings	215	(42)
Prints and Drawings	257	(47)
Bibliography	304	(14)
Index of Titles	318