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Francisco Goya, tapestry painter.
In late 1774 the twenty-nine-year-old Francisco Goya was called from the city of Saragossa to Madrid to paint tapestry cartoons for the Real Fabrica de Tapices de Santa Barbara (Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Barbara). Today, the recently installed tapestry cartoons painted by Goya dominate the installation of his work at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. The tapestries woven after them are less well known, since many of them still decorate private rooms in the royal palaces and residences of Spain. The reversal is ironic, for during Goya's time the cartoons were considered of little value, and painting them was thought to be a lowly task. The disadvantages of the ...
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...and Beirut, Toronto and Hamburg and Rome rumba all night at Le Club Red. Parisians smoke Romeo and Julieta cigars at the Real Fabrica de Tabacos Partagas, one of Havana's oldest cigar factories. On the streets below luxury hotels, however, schoolchildren...
- Seeing Madrid through Goya's art: Tracking down the painter in a city he...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 27, 2001 700+ words
...century tapestries designed by Goya, hop the No. 601 bus from Moncloa subway station to the royal palace of El Pardo. As a museum, El Pardo is a study in contrasts. Generalissimo Francisco Franco resided here, and his presence lingers. Security...
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