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Sketches of Spain at Edinburgh's National Galleries
British painters fell for Spain in the 19th century – but they couldn't match its great artists, as the National Galleries of Scotland's uneven summer show revealsHuge reproductions of paintings by El...
View ArticleFrom Goya to Picasso: Spanish art at Scotland's National Gallery
Tour a dazzling exhibition of Spanish culture at the National Gallery in Edinburgh, where the likes of El Greco and Velázquez feature alongside British artists who were inspired by Spain
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The Discovery of Spain | Exhibition review
National Galleries of Scotland, EdinburghThere is a portrait in this marvellous show at the National Gallery complex in Edinburgh that shocks you with its flashing intensity. It shows a dark-eyed...
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Exhibition preview: Goya: Fantasies, Follies And Disasters, Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery, to 31 Jan, 2010Varying exhibitions of Francisco De Goya's etchings appear periodically here and there and they always astound. This selection of 30 prints from the artist's...
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My hero Francisco Goya by Diana Athill
My hero is Goya – hard to explain when so little is known about him, his very few extant letters being so flat (like those of a cabinet-maker, someone said). And given a "fact", such as that he knew...
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Bewitched: Salvator Rosa's satanic art | Jonathan Jones
The 17th-century master's painting seethes with demonic figures, but do they reflect his fear of witchcraft or simply a fascination with fear itself?The first rays of morning touch distant clouds with...
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Royal Academy to exhibit Hungary's art treasures
Masterpieces that have never been loaned before to go on show in London this autumnMasterpieces from one of central Europe's finest state collections – many of which have never before been on loan –...
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EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life...
Why didn't EM Forster write much of anything in the second half of his life? According to a new biographer, Wendy Moffat, who has had access to Forster's private papers, what knocked him off song was...
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Is the art of bullfighting dead?
From Goya to Picasso, artists have painted pictures that depend on the gore and passion of the bullfight for their greatness – so will the bloodsport's demise mean the end of tragic art?Spanish bulls...
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Treasures from Budapest | Visual art review
Royal Academy, LondonIt is understandable that publicists for this exhibition chose to put Egon Schiele's 1915 work Two Women Embracing on the posters. Sex sells, and drawing does not come any sexier...
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Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration
Tate Britain's new show proves there's more to watercolours than pallid sunsets, but where are the happy amateurs?Paint is basically coloured mud mixed with some sort of binder. Like cooking, it feels...
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How Goya's Duke of Wellington was stolen
From the National Gallery to Dr No's lairThe 21st of August is the anniversary of two shocking art thefts: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre 100 years ago, and Francisco de Goya's...
View ArticleGoya's hidden portrait: see the secret of Don Ramón Satué – interactive
Beneath Goya's powerful 1823 portrait of Don Ramón Satué, researchers have discovered another, hidden workDalya AlbergePaddy Allen
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X-rays uncover secret painting beneath Goya masterpiece
Earlier work found under artist's 1823 portrait of Madrid judge Don Ramón Satué may depict Napoleon Bonaparte's brother• Interactive: see how one portrait covered the otherBeneath a Goya masterpiece, a...
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Leonardo, Goya and Ai Weiwei – the week in art
From a daring exhibition of Leonardo's court paintings to Restoration naughtiness and English National Ballet's rehearsals at the Tate, discover the week's top shows and art newsJonathan Jones's top...
View ArticleDashing through the snow: Francisco de Goya's Snowstorm (La Nevada)
In the latest of his series of favourite wintry artworks, Jonathan Jones admires the compassion and elegance of Goya's Snowstorm, an oil-painted paean to Spain's heroic underclassJonathan Jones
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Jeremy Deller exhibits and Donatello awes – the week in art
One of the most authentic and important artists of modern Britain opens at the Hayward, while Donatello's awe-inspiring power of illusion is unleashed at the V&A – all in your weekly...
View ArticleSeason of revolution: Goya's The Third of May, 1808
In Jonathan Jones's latest daily selection of artworks that capture the essence of spring, Goya reminds us that it's a season of rebirth not only for flowers but for nationsJonathan Jones
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El Greco to Velazquez to Goya: sublime visions from Spain – the week in art
Rarely-seen prints and drawings on show at the British Museum tell the story of Spanish art, plus the Liverpool Biennial, John Golding and Rita Ackermann – all in today's weekly art dispatchExhibition...
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Goya works among Spain's lost art gems to be shown at British Museum
Drawings and prints that languished in collection show country's artists were producing great art for hundreds of yearsThe Iron Duke looks distinctly rusty in Francisco de Goya's superb drawing,...
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