The Revolutionary Art of Francisco Goya

The visionary art of Francisco Goya is revealed in Milan in a major exhibition. About 70 works by the great Spanish painter arrive at Palazzo Reale from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid: paintings, drawings and engravings, including his most famous masterpieces, to be admired in an exhibition that traces his entire career. In the foreground, the humanity and depth of Goya's soul, the surprising ability to open up to modernity already in the eighteenth century while remaining integrated in his time. First court painter, director of the Royal Academy, a cultured man of uncommon sensitivity, in his art Goya restores a historical season saturated with events, ranging from the French Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars, up to the Restoration: an era of disruptive transformations that it is reflected in the subjects of the works, but above all in a radically innovative painting, which breaks with the rules and models of the past.