While Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings, / While quacks of State must each produce his plan, / And even children lisp the Rights of Man; / Amid this mighty fuss let me mention, / The Rights of Woman merit some attention. - ROBERT BURNS

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Two Paintings by Francisco Goya 1746-1828 



"La Maja Desnuda" - the unclothed maja - was painted some time between 1797 and 1800. Goya later created a second painting of the same subject identically posed  "La Maja Vestida" - the clothed maja. The model may have been Maria the 13th Duchess of Alba or possibly Pepita Tudo, the young mistress of the prime minister, the Duke of Alcudia. 

The word "maja" describes a stereotypical traditional Spanish woman.

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