Table of Contents
Color plates follow page 180
Main and Supporting Characters ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xxi
Part I An Artist from Zaragoza
1 Early Years 3
2 First Trials 9
3 Italy 16
4 Triumphs of a Native Son 24
5 Settings for the Court of Carlos III 32
6 Of my invention" 37
7 Goya Meets Velázquez 44
8 The Zaragoza Affair 54
Part II The Path of a Court Painter
9 Floridablanca 63
10 Don Luis 72
11 "The happiest man" 81
12 "God has distinguished us" 90
13 A Coronation under Darkening Skies 97
14 Changing Times 107
15 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 117
Part III Witness of a Silent World
16 "There are no rules in painting" 129
17 Goya and the Duchess 141
18 Dreaming, Enlightened 152
19 Subir y bajar 161
20 "The king and queen are crazy about your friend" 170
21 The French Connection 180
21 Absences 188
23 Society High and Low 198
24 A Monarchy at Twilight 205
Part IV War and Restoration
25 The Old Order Falls 213
26 In the Shadow of a New Regime 223
17 On the Home Front 236
28 The Spoils of War 244
29 Portraits of a New Order 254
Part V Triumphs of Caprice
30 Disparates 265
31 The Artist's Retreat 275
32 Farewells 282
33 Paris 288
34 Unsettled in Bordeaux 294
35 "Only my will abounds" 300
36 The Last Year 309
Epilogue: Rosario 315
Notes 321
Bibliography 359
Index 375
Image Credits 388