The nude maja
Francisco Goya was known for his scandalously explicit works, which often took the form of social commentary La Maja Desnuda, Desnuda meaning naked , was essentially 18th century pornography. The painting hung in the home of Manuel Godoy, Prime Minister of Spain, and a man known for his enormous penis. The painting was mounted directly behind a G-rated painting of the same woman, now called "The Clothed Maja".




Naked Maja, 1797-1800 by Francisco Goya




When The Inquisition Met Nude Maja - chinatel.us - Art History Stories
On 16 March the tribunal of the Inquisition issued a subpoena for Goy appear, "that he might acknowledge and declare the works to be his, why he created them, at whose request and to what end. His reply, if any, remains unknown. Though the canvases have aroused the curiosity of numerous scholars, the Inquisition's questions remain unanswered since the early nineteenth century We do not know who commissioned the paintings. Research focused first or the duchess of Alba, who had presented to Manuel Godoy, for his private study, Toilet of Venus of Diego Velazquez as well as a sixteenth-century Italian school Venus.



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Francisco Goya was a romanticist and is widely regarded as the most important Spanish artist of his era. Highly successful within his own lifetime he marks an artistic turning point as one of the last Old Masters and one of the first modern painters. His talents led him to an appointment as a court painter to the Spanish Crown and his early portrait works detail a wide array of the Spanish royalty and aristocracy.





The Nude Maja was the first in a two painting series, the second of which was The Clothed Maja, respectively. It is said to be the first painting in which female pubic hair is visible, making it totally profane at the time. Many art historians agree that the model was a compilation of many female figures. It portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows, and was probably commissioned by Manuel de Godoy, to hang in his private collection in a separate cabinet reserved for nude paintings.

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