o the opportunity to study and consider an artistic career. According to contemporary Spanish standards, Goya was excessive in his earthly pleasures, and his love for art and expression was clearly matched by his love of the flesh. Goya's machismo led him to consider most of the Court painters unworthy, and he went to great odds to look down upon them. This, in effect, was to become a common part of his personal style, which blended into the timbre and texture of ____________________
4 Herbert De la Croix and Richard G. Tansey, eds., Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Vol. II. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), 731.
[Goya] was querulous and impatient, largely because he knew he stood head and shoulders above his fellows. In a s
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