Course Goya before travelling to Madrid (1746-1775)
November/December 2009
The Ibercaja Camón Aznar Museum in conjunction with the Goya in Aragon Foundation
The main objective of this short course, entitled Goya before travelling to Madrid (1746-1775), is to emphasise Goya's youthful early period, conducting an in-depth examination of both his artistic education and also the works he produced during this time, during which Zaragoza played as significant a role for Goya as Seville had done in the life and education of Velázquez.
The course provides a detailed examination of the biographical background (taught by José Luis Ona), the family and artistic links with the Bayeu family (José Ignacio Calvo) and the vicissitudes of the Parma Academy competition (María Elena Manrique). His artistic training is considered through a detailed analysis of his debt to French painting (Fréderic Jimeno), Italian painting (Joan Sureda) and the theory and practice of mural painting in Spain (Miguel Hermoso). A study of the works of Goya provides an initial attempt to produce an ordered catalogue of this youthful period (Juan Carlos Lozano), with particular emphasis on the sets of mural paintings, especially the paintings in the Carthusian Monastery of Aula Dei (Gonzalo M. Borrás) which already constitute a masterpiece.
