Political Art: David and Goya

1/26/02


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Political Art: David and Goya

David’s Early Career

The Oath of the Horatii (1784)

Jean-Paul Marat (1793)

The Tennis Court Oath (1791)

The Death of Socrates (1787)

The Sisters Zenaide and Charlotte Bonaparte (1821)

Francisco de Goya

Disasters of War, “They Equip Themselves”

The Count of Floridablanca (1783), oil on canvas, Banco Urquijo at Madrid.

Caprichos, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”

Naked Maja (before Nov. 1800), oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

The Third of May 1808 (1814), oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Loss of Faith

Saturn (1820-23)

Author: James Donelan

Email: donelan@writing.ucsb.edu

Home Page: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/donelan/SF2001