Excerpt from Paintings and Drawings by Francisco Goya in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America<br><br>His art reflected the savagery, the sensuality, theromanticism, the disorder, the fundamental melan choly of the period in which he lived, its strange atmosphere of passion and conflict. Despite its num berless eccentricities and manifest imperfections, his work lived, and, living, proves his genius. Through it he gave the world not only visions of new beauty. But a marvellous record of the soul of the Spain he knew.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.