ZhZL: Goiia - Iakimovich A.K.

Francisco Goya-i-Lucientes (1746 - 1828) - an artist whose name is inseparable from the turbulent era of revolutionary upheavals, from the hopes and disappointments of his contemporaries. His biography, written by the famous art historian Alexander Yakimovic, includes anecdotes, interludes, scientific hypotheses, subjective guesses and other attempts to get closer to the exciting, frightening and surprising meanings of the paintings of the great master paintings and graphics. The reader will meet here dear friends, his associates, antagonists, admirers and rivals. The book also includes masses, kings, generals, noble ladies, daring girls, freethinkers, inquisitors, guerrilla squiers, philanthropists, poets, bullfighters and other inhabitants of Spain and the rest of the world.