The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 74 - 75

Question 1

Goya: Man without an “ism”

Answer 1

• Francisco de Goya (1746-1828)
• work was indebted only to the realism of Velazquez, insight of Rembrandt, and to “nature”
• first modern painter

Question 2

Art of Social Protest

Answer 2

• after near-fatal illness in 1792, during his recovery he began to paint demons of his inner fantasy world
• his “The Disasters of War”from 1810-14 are frank exposes of atrocities by both the French and Spanish armies during the invasion of Spain

Question 3

Late Style: Black Paintings

Answer 3

• made Quinta del Sordo

- fourteen large murals in black, brown, and gray of 1820-22 present appalling monsters engaged in sinister acts