reading and dramatist mandatory consultation for all to be worthy of the name, the last issue of tightrope walkers, entitled THE 'OO , performs a thorough analysis of what happened and left to spend with our theater in this first decade of the century.
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GOYA ETCHING AND THE DUCHESS OF ALBA, MADRID 1795 - 1797 SANLÚCAR
After visiting this summer Cadiz and Santa Cueva admire the paintings of Goya, we went to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, to know the city and Guzmanes Palace and Medina Sidonia, The Duchess of Alba, where he spent two years, from 1796-97, serving the mourning for his widow.
Sanlucar de Barrameda is a beautiful city at the mouth of the river Guadalquivir, opposite the Coto de Doñana, with a uptown accessed by the slope of Bethlehem, to reach the main house and Church of the Trinity, near which is the Palace of Guzman, now the Palace Ducal de Medina Sidonia, which retains important Archives of the House, part of it is dedicated to Hospedería.
This palace was begun in 1297, when Ferdinand IV granted the town of Solúcar Alonso Perez de Guzman. The building suffered the ups and downs of the history of Spain, and the discovery of the Indies in 1492, the Catholic Monarchs, who wanted to dominate the lords of the ports, married to her granddaughter Ana V of Aragon with the Duke of Medina Sidonia. Fernando died in 1516, Charles V takes over as Emperor and Anna and the Duke are going to live Sanlucar Seville in 1517, settling permanently in 1524, becoming the Palace in the heart of the state, beginning to build the new units, like the house of ladies .... In the seventeenth century and the building has the current structure. In 1644 Philip IV robs the Guzman of their possessions and transfers them to the Duke of Medinaceli who settled in it, moved the files missing important documents and deteriorating buildings. In 1645 he joined Sanlúcar to the Crown, and not until Pedro Alcantara Guzman who inherited it in 1739, he moved with his mother to restore the palace, visited by Felipe V and then by the Duke of Alba, with his wife and his daughter on holiday.
died in 1799 the Duke of Medina Sidonia childless and inherited José Alvarez de Toledo-nephew, and it was not until 1796 that he decided to travel to Andalucia to visit their new possessions, and died in Seville on June 9. At that time, his wife the Duchess of Alba, is with him. He was taken to the Monastery of Jeronimos, the patronage of Medina Sidonia, where he is buried. 4 and 5 September the funeral took place in Madrid. The Duchess widow moved with her brother to leave Sanlúcar Palace where he spends two years of mourning.
summer but returned to Madrid in 1795, in June, where Goya is in his study and will soon visit the Duchess of Alba desired, the a priest in Seville a sonnet flame Venus of Spain, to commission his portrait of the entire body. On August 2 Goya tells in a letter to Zapater, and gives important information such as the contact with the House of Alba, and he paints face, he says .... also named to the Duke of Alcudia, Manuel Godoy, who on Sept. 4 will be officially appointed to the title of Prince of Peace and invites you to the Site of Rome. Talk of interest Bayeu his brother Francisco, going to Zaragoza, but is seriously ill, has been body. Bayeu dies August 4, 1795.
Goya At that time the absolute power plays, contact the de Alba y Godoy, who acquired supreme power in the court and begins his romance with a young orphan of sixteen Cadiz, Pepita Tudo. Godoy protects him, has died censor artistic Bayeu. His art is free, buy two sketchbooks, one pocket, 17 x 10 cm. and a larger, 24 x 15 cm.
Goya made in 1795 a portrait of the Duke sat, which is then converted into a beautiful engraving burin Salvador Carmona, also paints his mother the widowed Marchioness of Villafranca, in a delicate picture with a rose in his chest. Later, paints a new portrait of the Duke of whole body, resting on the pianoforte with a score of Haydn, who was a fan. Finally, the splendid summer portrait of the Duchess of Alba, in a dress of white gauze, belt and red coral necklace . It is noted that Goya is dazzled by the character. Simultaneously makes sketches of the Duchess and their environment, to the water in a small notebook, made two small paintings domestic housekeeper's scolding her daughter, the Duchess, and the bold and Maria de la Luz Luisito of pulling Berganza the skirt of the housekeeper.
These drawings in gouache from 1795 and show us that Goya has in mind the Caprichos , and you plan to do with the graphic art of aquatint , which used the English artists and printmakers to satirical prints and surely saw Goya's house in Sebastian Martinez Cadiz in 1792.
In May 1796, Goya writes to his friend the sculptor Arali who plan to go to Sanlucar. And the Duke had left for Andalusia to inherit in January, giving powers to the Duchess that remains in Madrid. Just moved to Seville to take care, the sick, returning to Madrid for the funeral. Godoy is on his property donated by the Kings of Rome Site Goya and probably moved to the site where he was invited and he painted an equestrian portrait with the river Genil and its possessions in the background, of which he was very proud. Goya then travels to Cadiz for the paintings of the Holy Cave and the end of December and January 1797, there is ill, tells us in his diary Moratin Leandro, who came to Cadiz from England.
February 14, after the defeat of the English ships by the English fleet, at Cape San Vicente, bombard Cadiz. February 16, the Duchess in Sanlúcar of wills, leaving Javier de Goya ten real day both for life, ie, Goya was in Sanlúcar but not in the palace as a guest because there is no evidence in the files of his presence there. What it can be is that he was in the house and Pepita Tudo Godoy had in Sanlúcar, Mercy street corner, and that was to visit the widow of Alba, as on the album are small drawings of scenes of Andalusian taverns and Duchess of black or black. The black figure is going to serve as an icon for the album called Madrid as the protagonist of the scenes that we want to have the engravings, the Caprichos , identifying in Volaverunt and other unpublished Sleep of lies and inconstancy . At the same time made a painting of a black pestle besieged by a gentleman.
When Goya makes a will in 1812, cataloging a large painting of the Duchess of Alba black, in a landscape of a beach in the Coto de Doñana, and License ring is love or a dream, with the names de Goya y Alba, and sand type only Goya. This illusion of possession takes a few seconds, since the waves and wind erased these dreams. Were you really in love with the painter of the most noble and desirable woman? Did he give reasons Cayetana to be made in such illusions two years of friendship and artistic contact ? What is true is that after his deafness, Alba made in the work of Goya entered the beauty and the grotesque and filled all his work Eros and Thanatos. Do you happen to Goya with the Duchess as the verses of Neruda, ... Love is so short and oblivion so long ....
Long --------------------------------------- Who has to learn is blind to the lightning. Matsuo Basho
--------------------------------------- Can you learn once and for all? can you not fall again? When the storm hits, the only option is to go and wet weather. Trust that the lightning finally lit.
Life is strange sometimes. Think you finally saw it all.
