Maja Desnuda

Goya’s celebrated picture of woman in the nude. [Span. Art: Spain, 246–247]

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The Third of May 1808 and La maja desnuda are works by which Spanish romanticist painter?

Most people, however, associate with two paintings by Goya that now hang in the Prado: the Maja Desnuda and the Maja Vestida that supposedly depict the 13th Duchess of Alba clothed and nudebut that is another story altogether.

The Duchess of Alba

Condo made two variations on the Spaniard's La Maja Desnuda, part of a famous pair of paintings of an identically posed woman--in one, La Maja Vestida (c.

A painterly language: George Condo's approach to painting is underpinned by his love of Old Master works. Not content to simply adopt a painterly language of the past, the artist imbues his appropriations with a tragicomic absurdity to reveal his vision of humanity

Significant also is his inclusion of actual framed reproductions of the paintings to which Manet's Olympia alludes: Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538), Goya's Maja Desnuda (1800), and Cabanel's The Birth of Venus (1863).

J. Seward Johnson: Beyond the Frame: Impressionism Revisited-The Sculptures of J. Seward Johnson

Examples include Conde de Osborne brandy's use of the enigmatic Mona Lisa and Spain's Travel Bureau's re-casting of Goya's "Maja Desnuda" as a centerfold-like "Playmate 1798" to lure tourists to its museums.

Narrative and the Publishing Industry

Based on Antonio Larreta's novel about the mysterious death of aristocratic floozy the Duchess of Alba and about the creation of Goya's celebrated paintings "La maja desnuda" and "La maja vestida," this 88 million production boasts elegant visual trappings and two strong leading women.

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More popular novels--La maja desnuda (1906; Woman Triumphant), Sangre y arena (1908; Blood and Sand), Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), and others--brought him fame but cost him critical approval because of their sensational nature.

Blasco Ibanez, Vicente

At the turn of the 18th century, Francisco Goya painted "La maja desnuda," depicting a naked woman reclining on a bed, facing and boldly staring at the viewer.