Goya, 1789-1799: El artista y su década revolucionaria.

The lecture "Goya, 1789-1799: The Artist and His Revolutionary Decade" inaugurates the series "Goya and Enlightenment Thought," organized by the Goya Foundation in Aragon. In 1789, Goya was appointed court painter, an honor he had longed for since his arrival at court fourteen years earlier. A decade later, he would obtain the title of First Court Painter. These were years of profound changes in European politics and culture, but also in the art of the Aragonese artist. Dr. Janis Tomlinson will connect live from the US with the National Library of Spain to examine the personal and artistic revolution of Francisco de Goya as court painter. The presentation will include remarks by Víctor Lucea Ayala, Director General of Culture of the Government of Aragon, and Ana Santos Aramburo, Director of the National Library of Spain. Janis Tomlinson arrived in Barcelona with her family, where her father took over the direction of a program for American high school students. He discovered the Prado Museum, where Goya's art impressed him so much that a friend gave him a book about the painter when he turned seventeen—a book he still owns. Less than a decade later, Tomlinson earned his doctorate in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on Goya's tapestry cartoons, a work that became the first of his several books: Francisco Goya: The Tapestry Cartoons and Early Career at the Court of Madrid (Cambridge University Press, 1989), later translated into Spanish (Cátedra, 1993). Other publications followed: Graphic Evolutions: The Print Series of Francisco Goya; Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment; Francisco Goya y Lucientes; Painting in Spain 1561-1828… works that have been translated into, among other languages, Korean, German, and Japanese, and his recent biography, Goya: A Portrait of the Artist (Princeton University Press, 2020), which shortly after its publication garnered unanimous critical acclaim in reviews from media outlets such as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, The Times, and The London Review of Books… The Spanish edition will be published by Cátedra in 2022. In 2001, he collaborated with Francisco Calvo Serraller on the preparation of the exhibition Goya: Images of Women at the Prado Museum and the National Gallery of Art.