Francisco Goya's painting at the heart of the movie Trance

Francisco Goya was born near Zaragoza in 1746, the son of a gilder. Sent, aged 14, to study under local artist José Luzán, he later went on to Madrid, where he was taught by the Bohemian-German Anton Mengs but fell out with his master and failed ...

Today we're wishing a Happy Birthday to our favorite eerie romantic to ever yield a paintbrush, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. The Spanish modernist would turn a whopping 267 if he was alive today, and we imagine he would seriously chow down ...

The Day of the (Fiesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Dos de Mayo) is a public holiday in Madrid, Spain, on May 2. It marks the anniversary of an uprising against French troops on May 2, 1808, eventually leading up to Spain's War of Independence, as ...

by Francisco Alen, Inmaculada Crespo, María Teresa Ramírez-López, Nadine Jagerovic, Pilar Goya, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, Raquel Gómez de Heras, Laura Orio Ghrelin is an endogenous regulator of energy homeostasis synthesized by the stomach ...

Goya: Masterpieces in Color by Francois Crastre is today's Free eBook of the Day. The book is a work about the great Spanish painter. Here is an excerpt: Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, the poor son of farming folk of Saragossa, fulfilled the ...

The headquarters of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S., hardly smacks of innovationit's a low-slung brick building hiding out in industrial Secaucus, N.J. The most striking thing in the otherwise drab lobby is Eva ...

Bigas Luna, an iconoclastic film director who emerged after the Franco dictatorship to portray the new Spain as engagingly and perplexingly robust, and later discovered the stars Penlope Cruz and Javier Bardem, died on Saturday at his home in ...

The Latin Products, the world's largest distributor of Goya and other leading Mexican products and Latin brands, announces their relationship with the leading ecommerce platform ShopVisible. The pair is launching a cross-channel ecommerce solution ...

Terahertz Image Reveals Goya's Hidden Signature in Old Master Painting Darkened varnish obscures Goya's signature in a 1771 masterpiece, according to a new analysis using terahertz waves In 1771, the young Spanish painter Francisco Goya travelled to ...