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Francisco de Goya

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Jose de, Spanish painter and etcher born in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain, March 30, 1746 and died Bordeaux, France, April 16, 1828. Though of humble origin, he cut a figure in the literary and aristocratic salons of Madrid, where he came to know the beautiful, profligate Duchess of Alba (1762-1802), with whom he fell in love. Of an intellectual bent, he counted leading men of letters among his friends, and his opinions were sought by art connoisseurs and historians.

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The Renaissance

The Early Renaissance of the 15th century was the period in which the eyes of man were opened to the beauties of this world. These were regarded with such naive delight and uncritical admiration that the interpretive treatment of experience tended to become very often little more than an enumeration of episodes or an indiscriminate recording of facts...it remained for Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael of Urbino, and Michelangelo to raise most effectively the materialism of Renaissance thought to the level of significant interpretive form...

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