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The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.
Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings from around 1819 to 1823 were among some of this Spanish artist’s darkest paintings. In the brief contextual analysis below, we will discuss when and where Goya painted these, what they are, and what the conditions of his life were like when he painted them.
The Black Paintings were a series of dark, pessimistic subjects that an elderly Goya painted on the interior walls of his private home, never meant to be shown to the public. What happened in Goya’s life that caused him to create such horrific scenes in the comfort of his own home?
By exploring Goya’s evolution from a highly ambitious commercial painter in the Spanish Court to a hermit painting, the solemn series of Black Paintings on the walls of his home, you will understand how his work and thoughts on human nature changed art forever.
Since the discovery of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings and their transfer to Madrid's Museo del Prado, where they still hang on display today, countless art historians have investigated the positions in which the paintings first hung on the walls of the Villa of the Deaf Man.
Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings comprise 14 artworks that were produced from 1819 to 1823. These dark paintings depict unsettling themes that reflect both his fear of going insane and his negative outlook on humankind. They were produced in Quinta Del Sordo, and include terrifying and disturbing works such as Saturn Devouring His Son (1823).
The mural paintings that decorated the house known as “la Quinta del Sordo,” where Goya lived have come to be known as the Black Paintings, because he used so many dark pigments and blacks in them, and also because of their somber subject matter.
Created between 1819 and 1823, a time of political turmoil and social unrest in Spain, “The Black Paintings” stand as a testament to Goya’s deep-seated fears, anxieties, and disillusionment.
Venerated as the first modern artist, Francisco Goya produced nothing more abrasively modern than the series of 14 images known as the Black Paintings, which a half-century after his death...
Originally made onto the walls of the artist’s own home near Madrid between 1819 and 1823, this series of 14 dark, fatalistic paintings are filled with terrible stories of witches, demons and man-eating monsters. The entire suite of paintings have been on display at Spain’s Prado Museum for years.