Francisco goya biography timeline for kids

March 30 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes born in Fuendetodos. near Zaragoza, to Jose Francisco de Paula Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia Lucientes, from a family of minor Aragonese aristocrats

Carlos III becomes king of Spain Enters the studio of Jose Luzan y Martinez in Zaragoza and learns to draw by copying the print collection of his master

Replacing the Neapolitan painter Corrado Giaquinto as Principal Court Painter, the Neoclassical artist Anton Raphael Mengs arrives in Spain; he summons Goya to furnish cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Barbara in Madrid in

The Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo arrives in Madrid and carries out royal commissions

The painter Francisco Bayeu is called to the Spanish court by Mengs, and is accompanied there by his brother Ramon Bayeu and Goya, making his first trip to Madrid

Returns to Zaragoza

Travels to Italy