Autor: Neopicassa
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Looking Closer: Goya’s Flickering Medals on Ferdinand VII’s Shoulder
For this Friday’s Looking Closer, let’s return to Francisco de Goya’s Ferdinand VII (When Prince of Asturias) at The Met—but ignore the famously blank royal face. Instead, slide your gaze down to the prince’s right shoulder, where the dark coat, blue sash, and glittering medals collide. Up close, that courtly finery stops being tidy. The…
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Technique Tuesday: Raphael’s Invisible Architecture – Perspective in The School of Athens
How Raphael’s School of Athens uses one-point linear perspective as an invisible architecture – turning a crowded gathering of philosophers into a lucid, walk‑in world of stone, light, and converging lines.
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Painter’s Anecdote: Goya, Deafness, and the Murmurs on the Wall
How a sudden deafness at the Spanish court pushed Francisco de Goya inward—and turned his self‑portrait into a quiet manifesto for the strange, daring art to come.
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Looking Closer: Goya’s Velvet Shoulder in the Portrait of Ferdinand VII
For this Friday’s Looking Closer, we won’t begin with monsters or darkness, but with something deceptively polite: a velvet shoulder in Francisco de Goya’s Ferdinand VII (When Prince of Asturias), today in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ignore the royal face for a moment. Let your eye slide down to the prince’s right shoulder and…
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Painter’s Anecdote: Artemisia Gentileschi, Court Scandal, and the Painted Comeback
How a teenage painter at the centre of a Roman court scandal turned trauma into canvases where women quietly seize the spotlight—and refuse to give it back.
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Francisco de Goya’s Black Paintings: When the Walls Start Listening
Goya’s Black Paintings were never meant for a museum—they were nightmares painted on the walls of his own house. This deep dive explores how an ageing, deaf court painter turned his villa into a theatre of war, witchcraft, disillusion, and radical honesty.
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Painter’s Anecdote: Jan Steen, Spilled Beer, and the Art of Chaos
Delft tavern, somewhere around 1670. A jug of beer tips, a dog noses the table, someone is already laughing too loudly. At the edge of it all, a man watches with the alert, amused gaze of someone who knows that life is never more honest than when people forget to behave. This is Jan Steen,…
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Technique Tuesday: Goya’s Velvety Darkness – Glazing in Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga
Today’s Technique Tuesday looks at glazing through Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga – how thin, transparent layers of oil paint create velvety darkness, glowing reds, and living shadow.
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Painter’s Anecdote: Leonardo da Vinci, Court Gossip, and the Unfinished Horse
How Leonardo da Vinci’s colossal horse for the Sforza court was melted down into cannons before it was ever cast—and how that unfinished monument kept galloping through his art anyway.
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Technique Tuesday: Goya’s Velvety Darkness – Glazing in Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga
How Goya’s transparent glazes make a small boy in scarlet and his menagerie glow out of velvety darkness in Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga (1787–88).