Goya (Taschen). Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial artists. A master of form and light, his influence reverberates down the centuries, inspiring and fascinating artists from the Romantic Eugène Delacroix to Britart enfants terribles, the Chapman brothers.   Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, in 1746, Goya was apprenticed to the Spanish royal family in