Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes' father was a gilder in
Fuendetodos, near Saragossa.
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
He became court painter to the king of Spain.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter from the Romantic movement era.
Romanticism
The painting 'Third of May' by Goya shows how French invasion troops executes Spanish opposition.The Third of May 1808 (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío,[3] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo[1]) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish master Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808. Along with its companion piece of the same size, The Second of May 1808 (or The Charge of theMamelukes), it was commissioned by the provisional government of Spain at Goya's suggestion.