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From light into darkness: the genius of Goya

Janis A. Tomlinson’s definitive biography follows the great Spanish painter from the splendour of the court to the savagery of the battlefield

Goya’s first portrait of Maria Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga. Credit: Alamy

  • Goya: A Portrait of the Artist

    Janis A. Tomlinson

    Princeton University Press, pp. 488, £30

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