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Spain's Prado stirs controversy by saying famous Goya painting is not a Goya after all
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July 5, 2008
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- CIARAN GILES
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For years Spain's famed Prado museum has had its suspicions. Now it is certain: One of its most prized Goyas is not a Goya after all.
The bombshell announcement about the "El Coloso" ("Colossus"), a large-size work depicting the torso of a giant bursting through the clouds as he marches above a terrified village, is causing a furor among the art world.
Many experts are upset at how the Prado has handled the matter and at least one still insists the painting was done by the 18th century master.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes' "Colossus" has always been one of the Prado's major attractions and a highlight of his series on Spain's war against ...
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Prado Denies Goya Made Masterpiece
The Washington Post;
July 5, 2008 ;
557 words
......whom still believe the painting is genuine. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes's Colossus...unexpectedly excluded the painting from its blockbuster show "Goya in Times of War." Then...in the painting. "The painting is not by Goya's hand," she said...
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Goya led way from official to personal art
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
December 8, 1996 ;
JAMES AUER;
787 words
......history of Spanish painting, Francisco Goya is just possibly...splendid new exhibit, "Painting in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries...be challenged by Goya. The third phase...There Are No Rules in Painting," is made up of works...
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THE FIRST PICTORIAL JOURNALIST TO HUGHES, GOYA WAS AN OBJECTIVE TELLER OF...
The Boston Globe;
February 8, 2004 ;
David Rollow;
787 words
......lottery." Students of Goya have long wondered...got away with a painting so unflattering...see exactly what Goya paints. Many painters before and after Goya have been fascinated...multiplied by reflection. Goya's use of the painting as mirror is dryly...remarkable "Black ...
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We must know if a Goya isn't a Goya
The Independent - London;
April 9, 2001 ;
Philip Hensher;
787 words
......doubts about two very famous paintings by Goya. Juliet Wilson-Bareau, the English...Colossus looks very similar to other paintings of Goya's last period, and if The Milkmaid...gigante in the 1812 inventory of paintings Goya compiled to be left to his son...
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Goya's last compositions
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
March 10, 2006 ;
JOHN ZEAMAN, STAFF WRITER;
787 words
......NJ) 03-10-2006 Goya's last compositions...pursued drawing, painting with vigor By JOHN...vigor, drawing and painting, now, almost entirely...pleasure. Students of Goya's life are fascinated...considered to be Goya's last painting, "The Milkmaid of...
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EUR1.2M GOYA 'FAKE'.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);
January 1, 2007 ;
19 words
...POLICE in Madrid have seized a painting they suspect was falsely attributed to Goya before it was sold for EUR1.2million.
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PAINTING MISTAKENLY ATTRIBUTED TO GOYA.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
March 13, 1996 ;
222 words
......Spain -- Art experts say a painting recently discovered in Madrid...Spanish artist Francisco de Goya and is really the work of a lesser-known painter. The painting, locked in a disused room...they were 90% sure it was by Goya, born 250 years ago this...director Alfonso Perez Sanchez. Goya ...
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An hour of enlightenment Goya: The dark romantic, THE STAR
The Star (Jordan, Middle East);
June 3, 1999 ;
Ahmad Saqfalhait;
699 words
......lithograph and itching, Goya carried the romantic spirit of painting to the epitome of...1808". In these paintings, Goya showed an extraordinarily...range and purpose of painting. For the first time in the history of art, Goya was the first to...
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Museum's Goya recovered: Artwork found in New Jersey after call from...
Blade (Toledo, OH);
November 21, 2006 ;
707 words
......of Art's stolen painting by Spanish artist Goya, has been recovered...ecstatic that the painting has been recovered...to bringing the Goya home and sharing...because it's a Goya original. I think that any painting where Goya's hand has been...
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Goya's 'Women'; 115 works of Spanish master to be shown at National...
The Washington Times;
March 9, 2002 ;
787 words
......among the most famous paintings by Francisco Goya y Lucientes. Clothed...each side of her body. Goya adopted a new approach...female nude with this painting, which predicted the...first major exhibit of Goya's paintings of women, which encompasses...
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Part play, part film, 'Goya' is compelling cinema
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;
April 26, 2002 ;
Jen Kopf;
452 words
......painter Francisco Goya nears the end of...Spain. He's still painting by night, a crown...daughter. But for Goya, nothing new remains...reveries that haunt his paintings and his dreams. Director Carlos Saura's "Goya in Bordeaux" is...from his prolific painting. With ...
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Goya's twilight years: Satirical and revelatory
International Herald Tribune;
February 28, 2006 ;
Michael Kimmelman;
787 words
......values, draining the guts out of Goya.Look at the late work and you'...Laurent Matheron, writing about Goya during his twilight in exile...woman, from 1824, the sort of painting you might miss if you weren...strokes that pay homage to Goya's hero, Velazquez, at the same...posterity the look of ...
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Exhibitions; Goya: un regard libre Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts
The Independent - London;
January 10, 1999 ;
TIM HILTON;
787 words
...No Goya painting can fail to be exciting...perhaps, in that particular Goya painting, he was easier to follow...too. In the first of these paintings, discarded black clothing...have been priests. From Goya's day to our own, we thinking...
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Do you dare share Goya's nightmare?
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);
February 25, 2001 ;
787 words
......London **** (Recommended) Goya is the most crucial of Western...the long transformation of Goya is at the heart of that change. His first works are dazzling paintings of the long 18th Century afternoon...disillusionment, and to go through Goya is to understand the moment...we look at the great, ...
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