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(Fuendetodos, Spain, March 30, 1746)
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He begins his apprenticeship with the painter José Martínez Luján.
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.After the two frustrated attempts to obtain material support to carry out the obligatory trip to study the Italian teachers in situ, Goya, with his own resources, he went to Rome.
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He marries with Josefa Bayeu, sister of Francisco Bayeu, his teacher.
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He began his work as a cardmaker at the Royal Tapestry Factory.
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He entered in the Royal Academy of San Fernando. He was the director.
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He is named Carlos IV's chamber painter. From 1794 Goya resumed his portraits of the Madrid nobility and other prominent figures of the society.
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He is deaf after suffering a long illness(Susac syndrome).
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He joins General Palafox in Zaragoza and begins the series of engravings The disasters of war. The period between 1808 and 1814 is dominated by turbulent events for the history of Spain, since after the mutiny of Aranjuez Carlos IV was forced to abdicate and Godoy to leave power.
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Josefa Bayeu dies and Goya starts relations with Leocadia Weis, her housekeeper.
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He painted Loading of the Mamluks in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid and The executions of May 3 on the mountain of Prince Pio in Madrid.
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He retires in «La Quinta del Sordo» and begins the series of «black paintings».It was a serie of fourteen mural works that Goya painted between 1819 and 1823.
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The period of the absolutist Restoration of "king Felón" supposed the persecution of liberals and afrancesados, between which Goya had his main friends.
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He goes into exile in the French city of Bordeaux.He went to take refuge in the house of a canon friend, José Duaso y Latre.
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He dies in Bordeaux because of a stroke.
