SAN DIEGO — “Goya’s Portraits” is a lesson in the virtues of small. The exhibition includes just 10 paintings and one diminutive drawing -- a charcoal self-portrait -- by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) ...

Francisco de Goya, “Ferdinand VII in Court Dress” (1814–15) (© Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid) When was the last time you saw a survey of one artist that could dispel completely the need for filler, ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portraits make up a third of Goya's output - ...

Portraits make up a third of Goya's output - and more than 150 still survive today - but there has never been an exhibition focusing solely on Goya's work as a portraitist, until this autumn when ...

The Restoration Service of the Museums of France (RSMF) has authenticated a rare self-portrait by the Spanish master Francisco de Goya owned by the Musée Bonnat in the small town of Bayonne, in ...

THE Duchess of Alba—beautiful, powerful, rich and capricious—rushed into the Madrid studio of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes and demanded that he paint her face. He did at once. This was 1794, the year ...

Mirrors don’t lie, unfortunately, leaving both our flaws and highlights visible in the medicine cabinet door each morning. But the reflections Francisco de Goya offered may have been even more honest.

Born in provincial obscurity, the son of a master gilder, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes grew up far removed from the ostentatious glamour of the Spanish Court. But his ambition knew no bounds. Despite ...

More than two decades after transporting audiences to 18th-century Europe in the multiple Academy Award-winning “Amadeus,” Milos Forman has traveled back in time again. This time, the destination is ...

Nearly 20 years ago, Robert Hughes reflected on the head-on car accident that almost killed him: “It was through the accident that I came to know extreme pain, fear, and despair,” he wrote in the ...