Tag Archives: The Duchess of Alba

odd couples

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

A secret drive to crave disgrace or an insane desire to please? … Louise Mignot, the daughter of Voltaire’s sister, had in 1738 married Monsieur Denis of the Commisariat Department, who died in 1744. Her uncle on the occasion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Angela Carter, bruno h. schubert, Francois Boucher, Frederick the Great, Marquis de Sade, Marquise de Pompadour, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Max Horkheimer, meharit kifle, nell gwynn, sir peter leley, The Duchess of Alba, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hardy, Voltaire | Leave a comment

duchess of alba: seven year fling

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Dave

At about the time that Goya began work on the “Caprichos” , he also began his famous but always somewhat ambiguous affair with the Duchess of Alba, probably the most vivid figure that her society produced. In 1795 she visited … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, George Romney, John Flaxman, Joshua Reynolds, Kenneth Clark, Liz Hager, Robert Hughes, Rose-Marie Hagen, Sarah Symmons, The Duchess of Alba, Thomas Gainsborough | Leave a comment

viscious frailties at the most extreme

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Dave

At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire | Leave a comment

an enemy of irrational tendencies

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Dave

Goya’s life was split in two near its midpoint by an illness that very nearly killed him when he was forty-six years old. If he had died, he would have left a large body of work establishing him as one … Continue reading →