Is it still possible to present Picasso and avoid the obvious criticisms? Word has it that some members of the Hong Kong public don’t appreciate how Picasso for Asia – A Conversation, which comprises ...

If you’ve ever fancied visiting a city founded by the Romans, defended by poets’ heroines and blessed with not one but two ...

Francisco Goya, Mucho hay que chupar (There is Plenty to Suck), Plate 45 from Los Caprichos, Etching and aquatint, 1799 After Napoleon’s armies marched into the Peninsular War of 1807 and the forces ...

Outraged, the Inquisition tried to imprison Goya, was stopped by the King. When Napoleon descended upon Spain, Goya remained in Madrid, helped King Joseph Bonaparte select 50 Spanish paintings for ...

Goya kept landing on his feet as cohorts of his friends and patrons toppled from official ... with Godoy promised a personal stake in the spoils. Big mistake. In 1808, Napoleon occupied Spain, ...

The social and political turmoil of today resonates in a mammoth, extraordinary show of Francisco de Goya's celebrated etchings at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.

Goya’s etchings rank among his strangest and most personal pieces. “Los Caprichos,” a series of 80 prints, is a pitch-black satire on religious hypocrisy, corruption, and superstition.

We took at closer look at Goya's royal portrait 'Carlos IV of Spain and His Family' and pinpointed three illuminating facts about it.

Goya's use of bold contrasts between light and dark increases the feeling of desperation and ... Jacques-Louis David's painting ‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps’ is one that captures the ...

Napoleon ranks third behind Jesus and Hitler in the number of books written about him but outdoes them both in the number of films — about 1,000 — made for cinema and television.

The picture’s main focus is from the 1790s to the 1810s. We see Napoleon triumphing at the siege of Toulon, proving ruthless with the mob in Paris, manoeuvring himself into power, crowning ...