The body of the Mamluk mirrors the sword on the ground.Įl dos de mayo en Madrid is a snapshot created before the invention of the camera. He has killed the Mamluk on the horse, who is heading towards the ground. To the left of the horse stands a person with retracted lips and white eyes. The man in the light green jacket is about to put a sword in the horse's belly, and he turns the white out of his eyes. His eyes are wide open with a wild expression on his face. The Mamluk on the horse has a knife in his hand, but he is about to be shot by the man in the right side of the painting. Around the horse, Turkish army troops in the French army, the Mamluks, are fighting a wild battle against the Spanish population. In the center of the painting we see a large white horse, which is also the main light source in the painting. The background is the only thing reminiscent of the order of Renaissance art - everything else in the painting depicts chaos and imbalance. The painting is framed within an architectural background, the central square of Puerta del Sol in the heart of Madrid. It is uncertain whether Goya himself experienced the rebellion on his own in the streets, but as an artist he convinces us that he was in the midst of the heat of the fight. Goya manages to produce one of the strongest eyewitness accounts in art history.

Goya's work was painted in 1814, or approximately 6 years after the events took place. The painting depicts the dramatic riots in Madrid on after Napoleon's troops had invaded the country. The Second of May (El 2 de mayo en Madrid) is one of Goya's most famous - and very best - works. The painting: The Second of May in Madrid He had a close relationship with both Karl III and Karl IV, but a tense one with the despotic King Fernando VII. Goya worked under three different Spanish kings and (for a brief period) under Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother. On the contrary, when Goya started painting again in 1795, he was better than ever before. This event radically changed Goya's art, but it didn't make him a worse painter. When he returned to Madrid, he had regained his sight and balance - but his hearing never returned. No one knows exactly which disease he contracted (doctors and art historians have since guessed at polio, hepatitis, meningitis and syphilis), but he experienced ear damage and lost both balance and some sight. One of the most important events in Goya's life occurred towards the end of 1792, when on a trip to southern Spain, he became seriously ill. Indeed, the acclaimed Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, calls Goya 'the last of the old masters and the first modern painter'.įrancisco José de Goya of Lucientes was born in the small Spanish village Fuendetodos in 1746 and died in Bordeaux in 1826.

Within its collection, the Prado Museum has more than 150 of Goya's oil paintings. During his career, Goya created more than 700 oil paintings, around 900 drawings and some 300 etchings. Room 64 at the Prado Museum.įrancisco Goya, together with Diego Velázquez, form the cornerstone of the Prado Museum's collection. Oil painting on canvas, 268,5 x 347,5 cm. The title at the Prado Museum: ' El dos de mayo en Madrid'.

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