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April 21, 2021 On Wednesday, April 21, from 4-5 p.m. join this virtual program, by Janis A. Tomlinson who is lecturing about the exhibition, World Without Reason: Goya’s Los Disparates. At some point between his 70th and 75th year, the Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched images published thirty-six years after his death as Los Proverbios.  Following that 1864 publication, impressions of the plates with titles in Goya’s hand that described the scenes as disparates, perhaps best translated as “irrationalities” came to light, justifying the title by whi...

April 16, 2021 On Wednesday, April 21, from 4-5 p.m. join this virtual program, by Janis A. Tomlinson who is lecturing about the exhibition, World Without Reason: Goya’s Los Disparates. At some point between his 70th and 75th year, the Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched images published thirty-six years after his death as Los Proverbios.  Following that 1864 publication, impressions of the plates with titles in Goya’s hand that described the scenes as disparates, perhaps best translated as “irrationalities” came to light, justifying the title by whi...

April 2, 2021 Exhibition Date: April 5, 2021 – Ongoing Dreamlike and wonderous, yet gravely dark and harrowing, are all descriptors associated with Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’ (1746-1828) last major print cycle, Los Disparates (or Los Proverbios). Published in 1864, thirty-six years after the artist’s death, these masterful etchings are still considered to be enigmatic and ambiguous, eluding definitive explanation and interpretation. While the Spanish term “disparate” translates imperfectly to “folly”, in Goya’s time the term held harsher connotations closer in mea...