GOYA'S WOMEN

摘要

Francisco goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote the Roman poet Terence. This motto was lived out to the fullest degree by certain 19th century geniuses. Charles Dickens, with his insatiable interest in character and narrative, was one. In a more abstract way-music being an abstract art anyway-so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual, was Goya-and there was no other painter in his time who even came near him in that respect.