スペイン北東部の小さな村フエンデトードスに生まれました。明るいタペストリーの下絵で認められ、やがて国王の首席宮廷画家になります。しかし40代で重い病気にかかって耳が聞こえなくなり、その後は戦争の悲劇や人間の心の闇を見つめる絵や版画を多く描きました。晩年はフランスのボルドーに移り、そこで亡くなりました。
Goya was born in Fuendetodos, a small village in northeastern Spain. His cheerful designs for tapestries made him known, and he finally became First Court Painter to the King. But in his forties, a serious illness left him deaf. After that, he made many paintings and prints about the horrors of war and the dark side of the human mind. In his last years, he moved to Bordeaux in France, where he died.
