From: galligan@sprynet.com

Subject: This big

To: bocci@unisi.it



Roberto:



When you send me a note, send it to

  galligan@sprynet.com



NOT

  galligan@compuserve.com



I almost NEVER get on compuserve, except tonight when I was trying to help

a friend with airfares to Madrid and accidently found your recent posting.



Ciao for now.



Jan.








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Subject: This big

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:58:40 +0000

From: Ed Atkeson 

Reply-To: edatkeson@earthlink.net

To: "Galligan, Jan" 

Subject: How big



How big is the "Maja"?



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12-12-97



http://el.museo.del.prado.madrid.es/goya/cosas_des_conosidas



From 1775 to 1792 Goya was a painter of the court and in 1789 was

given the title of Court Painter.  In 1792 he suffered an illness

that left him completely deaf, and from then on his art became

more personal and often bizzare.



Sometime between 1795 and 1803 he painted a pair of figure paintings,

"The Naked Maja" and "The Clothed Maja". Historians believe that "The

Naked Maja" precedes "The Clothed Maja" by several years.  



In "The Naked Maja", Goya's careful and glossy brushwork achieves a

gleaming and velvety finish which suggests sensousness. The perfect

chromatic tonality, composed of greens, greys, whites and flesh

colors, results in a supremely delicate coloring.



In "The Clothed Maja", Goya used a freer style, broad brushwork and

bolder colours, introducing the yellow of her jacket and the rose

colour in the sash incircling her waist like a band.



Both paintings were in the private collection of Don Manuel de

Godoy, former Prime Minister of Spain, whose portrait "Don Manuel

de Godoy", Goya painted in 1803. In this portrait he is shown 

formidably self-satisfied, gazing beyond the furled standard with

an almost cruel delight at some private pleasure.



In 1815, The Spanish Inquisition took both paintings and judged

them obscene. The pose of the Maja (The Gypsy) is hardly

less provocative even in full dress, and clearly she offers herself

sexually. Her pose recalls the abandonded nude at the right of

Titian's "Andrian Bacchanal", then in the royal collection of Spain.



Both paintings now hang side by side in Room XXXVI on the Main

Floor at the far east end of the Museo del Prado. The paintings are

as twins, framed in the exact manner, each measuring 24 feet 

wide by 11 feet high.





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