Onto the walls of his final home, Goya would paint a series of tenebrous and horrifying works which he never intended anyone to see. They came to be known as The Black Paintings. Francisco de Goya, ...

As supreme mirages of dark delight and horror, Goya’s late paintings and etchings were probably inspired by the imagery of gothic novels, which he must have read either in English or French, for the ...

Goya didn’t emerge as a master through a neat evolution of period styles ... We come at last to the Black Paintings (untitled by Goya), of which Tomlinson gives a bracingly investigative ...

He saw horrors in his lifetime, and the especially bleak period which saw the creation of Goya's Black Paintings is a superb basis for a supernatural horror game. There are things in those ...

This period preceded a major change for Goya, when he began to draw ... despite the hints at their bond in Goya’s paintings and prints of the Duchess. In The Black Duchess (1797), in which ...

In this regard they share a sense of secret symbolism with the early, Surrealist-inspired canvases of proto–Action painting’s ideographic period ... Francisco Goya. Modelled in dark, muddy ...

I ask if he came closer to understanding Goya’s state of mind when working on the Black Paintings ... “It is a period which has quite a lot of parallels with the times in which we live.” ...