PAINTER

Francisco Goya

1746 - 1828

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Goya has received more than 5,689,831 page views. His biography is available in 153 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 151 in 2019). Francisco Goya is the 13th most popular painter (up from 14th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Spain (down from 4th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Spanish Painter.

Francisco Goya is most famous for his paintings of the Spanish royal family and the horrors of war.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Francisco Goya ranks 13 out of 2,023Before him are Claude Monet, Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch, Peter Paul Rubens, Frida Kahlo, and Caravaggio. After him are Johannes Vermeer, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, and Diego Velázquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Francisco Goya ranks 1After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Carlo Buonaparte, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Gaspard Monge, Gustav III of Sweden, Giuseppe Piazzi, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. Among people deceased in 1828, Francisco Goya ranks 2Before him is Franz Schubert. After him are Shaka, Maria Feodorovna, Victor of Aveyron, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Kobayashi Issa, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, and Carl Peter Thunberg.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Goya ranks 5 out of 3,355Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), Salvador Dalí (1904), Miguel de Cervantes (1547), and Antoni Gaudí (1852). After him are Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Francisco Franco (1892), Diego Velázquez (1599), Trajan (53), Philip II of Spain (1527), and Hernán Cortés (1485).

Among PAINTERS In Spain

Among painters born in Spain, Francisco Goya ranks 3Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), and Salvador Dalí (1904). After him are Diego Velázquez (1599), Joan Miró (1893), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617), Francisco de Zurbarán (1598), Juan Gris (1887), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), Antoni Tàpies (1923), Enrique Simonet (1866), and Marià Fortuny (1838).