The Painter Women Goya in Light and Shade Fionnuala Brennan 9780992967482 Books
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"The Painter’s Women Goya in Light and Shade" is for anyone interested in art, storytelling and the life of a most challenging artist. Francisco Goya's life, work and loves are reflected through the eyes of six women who knew the painter intimately during his long and eventful life his daughter, wife, mistress, daughter-in-law, a duchess, and a young model.
The story opens in 1828 at Goya's deathbed in Bordeaux in the voice of his adored but unacknowledged fourteen-year-old daughter, Rosario, who has stayed and talked to her old father all night after his death.
Gumersinda, the wife of Goya's only surviving son Javier, who has travelled reluctantly from Madrid to be at the dying artist's bedside and funeral has a viperish view of her father-in-law and of his work. She is determined that neither Rosario nor her mother Leocadia, Goya's much younger mistress, will inherit any of Goya's wealth.
Leocadia recounts the difficulties of living with a taciturn deaf old man.
Josefa, Goya's wife of forty years, an unassuming reserved woman, speaks to Goya from her deathbed. She has witnessed his rise to fame and his becoming the Court Painter. She has endured the deaths of six of their infants, his many unexplained absences, the rumours of his affairs.
The beautiful, feisty young Duchess of Alba first meets Goya in 1795 when she comes to his studio and commands him to paint her face. After her husband's death, she invites Goya to Andalusia where they spend some months together.
Dolores is young girl on the make at the Duchess's home in Andalusia. She is enticed by the Duchess to become Goya's model for some rather audacious drawings.
Fionnuala Brennan reveals with knowledge, imagination, and convincingness often contradictory aspects of the character and work of this enigmatic artist who lived through a most turbulent period in European history.
“From the six female narrative voices that comprise "The Painter’s Women", there emerges an intriguing portrait of the artist Francisco de Goya. A complex character who insisted that his deafness made him see more clearly, Goya dominates the novel. Ambitious and difficult, unfaithful and generous, uncompromising and volatile we see the man and the influences, both personal and political, that underpinned such masterpieces as Los Desastres de la Guerra and Los Caprichos.” —Catherine Dunne
“The Painter’s Women is a Cubist view of Goya. Fionnuala Brennan creates shards of the great painter as viewed by the women who competed with one another for a slice of his affections. Rich in historical detail and powerfully atmospheric, The Painter’s Women is as dark, passionate and haunting as a Goya masterpiece.” —Mary Morrissy
“An original and impressive novel that carries its learning lightly and makes for compelling and enjoyable reading.” —Marie Heaney
The Painter Women Goya in Light and Shade Fionnuala Brennan 9780992967482 Books
A great read - full of historical and psychological insights into the artist's obsession with human frailty, including the cultural repression of women. The inconsistencies, blindness and selfishness we all share - along with our capacity for love and compassion - are both subtly and dramatically demonstrated in the imagined lives of 6 women who lived more than 200 years ago. One is left with the understanding that Goya's art is as necessary and relevant today as ever.Product details
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The Painter Women Goya in Light and Shade Fionnuala Brennan 9780992967482 Books Reviews
A compelling read. A great insight into the turbulent life and character of the master artist as seen through the women he loved and who loved him - and often loved to hate him.. I now have to check my knowledge of his paintings and, perhaps, red the book again.
A simply wonderful literary portrait of Goya, through the eyes of his many women. The book is an incredible account of the painter and his work; both from an art history point of view and also as a character driven piece of literature. The reader is introduced to the complex character of the painter through the eyes of his various female lovers and partners. This is a book I would highly recommend to anyone interested not only in Goya as a painter, but also the psychological mechanics of a genius at work.
In her richly textured new novel 'The Painters Women', Fionnuala Brennan writes of a time when Spain's power was in decline and Napoleon's armies threatened its borders. During this period Francisco Goya, a highly esteemed and often controversial figure, made works of art that reflected the political and moral struggles that rocked the nation. Goya's brilliance is observed by a supporting cast, a group of women who, with the exception of the flamboyant Duchess of Alba, are usually presented as footnotes in the painter's illustrious biography. Brennan gives the women full voice, and each has a different take, a different agenda, and a different relationship with the renowned artist.
These multi-faceted tales are evocative of a period when women were little more than chattel and the highest achievement available to them was the production of children. While some of Goya's women are honest and loving, others have developed complex strategies to survive in a male dominated society, and they use these skills with greater, or lesser, degrees of success, to get what they want from the cantankerous, old genius. Ms. Brennan skilfully coordinates the multiple strands of her stories and integrates them into an exciting, atmospheric, and highly readable novel that celebrates the strengths, and exposes the frailties, of the women in Goya's life.
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Goya was a particularly complex man, extremely honest and extremely hypocritical, extremely vain and extremely aware of the foolishness of vanity. This book, mostly focused on the events after his death, feature the thoughts of his daughter, daughter in law, wife, and two women who modeled for him, including the famous Duchess of Alba. Each woman is a complete character in her own right, and together their perspectives create an image of Goya as well.
As you might expect from a book about Goya, there are plenty of sexual references, though nothing too explicit. Too many references to be taught in a high school class but not enough to shock a typical high school student, if that helps.
Recommended for those who enjoy historical novels, admirers of Goya's art, or those who enjoy literary fiction.
A great read - full of historical and psychological insights into the artist's obsession with human frailty, including the cultural repression of women. The inconsistencies, blindness and selfishness we all share - along with our capacity for love and compassion - are both subtly and dramatically demonstrated in the imagined lives of 6 women who lived more than 200 years ago. One is left with the understanding that Goya's art is as necessary and relevant today as ever.
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