Goya

American  

[goi-uh, gaw-yah] / ˈgɔɪ ə, ˈgɔ yɑ /

noun

1. Francisco de Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746–1828, Spanish painter.

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Goya British  

/ ˈɡɔɪə, ˈɡoja /

noun

1. Francisco de (franˈθisko de), full name Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. 1746–1828, Spanish painter and etcher; well known for his portraits, he became court painter to Charles IV of Spain (1799). He recorded the French invasion of Spain in a series of etchings The Disasters of War (1810–14) and two paintings 2 May 1808 and 3 May 1808 (1814)

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Example Sentences

The first Boricua film nominated for Spain’s Goya Awards as best Ibero-American film and the first to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival illustrates how the political and the personal are always intertwined.

From Los Angeles Times

Details of the prints reveal Goya’s hand—alternately frenetic, delicate and weighty—with fresh intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal

The film has won prizes in Spain, and was nominated for a prestigious Goya Award.

From BBC

And his portraits convey persuasive presences reminiscent of Goya.

From The Wall Street Journal

The social and political turmoil of today resonates in a mammoth, extraordinary show of Francisco de Goya’s celebrated etchings at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times