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...silk. Confronted with the second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...
...throne. Interested only in hunting he allowed his ugly, lecherous wife, Maria Luisa of Parma, and her lover, Manuel Godoy, to run the country. Goya became court painter and the lover of the Duchess of Alba whom he painted nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened him for life. Coarse, snub-nosed, his face creased by excess, Goya, in spite...
Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11½, 46¢, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...
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