Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was a military conflict between Napoleonic France and the allied powers of Spain, Britain, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its only ally at the time. The war on the peninsula would last until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814. This would be regarded as one of the first

Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker, especially known for his works depicting and commenting on the horrors of the French Occupation of Spain during the Peninsular War, in the early 1800’s. ‘The Third of May’, an oil on canvas painting created in 1814 by Goya, illustrates the mass executions of innocent Spanish civilians, in response to the uprising of civilians against the French military the previous day. ‘Saturn Devouring his son’, another oil on canvas masterpiece by Goya, depicts

his wildly staring eyes, gaping mouth and half-eaten son in his hands, it makes one wonder what would drive an artist to create an image like this. Goya, however, was not uneducated in the horrors of the world, witnessing the travesties of the Peninsular War, the atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition, surviving two life threatening illnesses, with one leaving him completely deaf, and the death of six of his seven children. Perhaps it was one of these instances in particular that encouraged him to

‘The Third of May 1808’ was painted by a Spanish painter - Francisco Goya in 1814. In this painting, Goya attempted to describe the battle between Spanish and Napoleon during the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War. It is also meant to commemorate the braveness of the Spanish army who is trying to fight against Napoleon who backtracked his promise and betrayed the Spain’s King – Charles IV. The Third of May is claimed as one of the greatest painting of all time. According to the art historian

to a specific subject matter. Contrasting to the refined period of Neoclassicism, Romantics broke it’s conformist, logic of the movement. The use of centring the human figure as the dominant feature embodied the tortuous and ghastly occurrences of war, depicting terror within their works. Theodore Gericault and Francisco Goya both made sense of their world by expressing what they critically believed needed to be shown, the horrific act of inhumanity. The determined, passionate artist Gericault

career proves that Goya always possessed a keen eye for depicting people and the world around him as they truly were, even before disease stripped him of his hearing. From his earliest tapestry cartoons to his politically charged depictions of the Peninsular War, Goya’s paintings and etchings express a brash approach through which he unveils the folly, foolishness, and cruelty of mankind

Francisco Goya brings oils to life in this painting titled The Third of May, 1808 to life around the year of 1814 on a canvas frame of 104.7 inches by 135.8 inches of canvas. Goya painted this piece in remembrance of hundreds of Spanish freedom fighters that were killed by French after Napoleon set out to concur Spain. Goya also painted an oil painting entitled The Second of May, 1808 that was the same size and depicts the rebellion that the Spaniards help lead (Zappella, Christine 2017). In The

The Third of May Francisco Goya I chose to my report on Francisco Goya Third of May, 1808. This painting represents the French taking over Spain during the time Napoleon was in reign. This invasion was a two day process but the painting is about what happened on the third of May. “Napoleon chose to invade Spain because he wanted to out his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, in power in Spain to have an alliance with Spain to conquer Portugal” (Zappella, 2014). “The invasion was an ambush as the French told

Francisco Goya created a painting called “Saturn Devouring His Son” that was made during 1819 and 1823. This is one of the 14 Black Painting that Goya painted directly onto the walls of his House. The paintings had a intense, haunting theme, that reflected both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two story house outside Madrid that was called Quinta del Sordo that means Deaf Man’s Villa. Although the house had been named after the

his hearing. Living in such disastrous period of French-Spanish war, combine with his illness had given him strength to carry on deep meanings in his paintings. Many of his paintings consist horror themes such as war, death and corpses. However, his unique styles and emotions in the paintings gave him the position of the first modern artist claimed by many other art historians. During the struggle years between Spain and France war, Goya focused on painting under large canvas. One of his paintings