GOYA

by Elizabeth Ripley ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A good introductory biography, tying in the events of Goya's life to the painting and drawing he was doing at the time, continues Elizabeth Ripley's series of painters' lives for younger readers. In Goya's life there is a natural emphasis on children, for he loved them and loved to paint pictures of them, though only one of his own lived to grow up. There was both sadness and gaiety in his personal life and also in his career and as his artistic moods would change, for example from the happiness of the tapestries to the horrors of the Caprichos or the Disasters of War, there is clear reference to Goya's own character and reasons for representing life in the varying ways that he did. With emphasis on the personal rather than the artistic, this should have its chance to create and stimulate young interests. Thirty-two reproductions have been planned to fit in with the text.

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Publisher: Oxford

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1956

Categories: FICTION