Goya: a portrait of the artist

CONTENTS

Main and supporting characters

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. AN ARTIST FROM ZARAGOZA. 1. Early years

2. First trials

3. Italy

4. Triumphs of a native son

5. Settings for the court of Carlos III

6. "Of my invention"

7. Goya meets Velázquez

8. The Zaragoza affair

PART II. THE PATH OF A COURT PAINTER

9. Floridablanca

10. Don Luis

11. "The happiest man"

12. "God has distinguished us"

13. A coronation under darkening skies

14. Changing times

15. The Best of times, the worst of times

PART III. WITNESS OF A SILENT WORLD

16. "There are no rules in painting"

17. Goya and the duchess

18. Dreaming, enlightened

19. Subir y bajar

20. "The king and queen are crazy about your friend"

21. The French connection

Color plates

22. Absences

23. Society high and low

24. A monarchy at twilight

PART IV. WAR AND RESTORATION

25. The old order falls

26. In the shadow of a new regime

27. On the home front

28. The spoils of war

29. Portraits of a new order

PART V. TRIUMPHS OF CAPRICE

30. Disparates

31. The Artist's retreat

32. Farewells

33. Paris

34. Unsettled in Bordeaux

35."Only my will abounds"

36. The last year

Epilogue: Rosario.