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“The letters from the 1780s are crucial to understanding Goya’s career, as he reports his progress in impressing influential people and commissions received.” Read more...
The best books on Goya and the art of biography
Janis Tomlinson, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
by Michael Baxandall -
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
by Don Thompson -
Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer