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As    a    young    man    the    artist,    Francisco    Goya,    was      the    works    of    Rembrandt    and    Velazquez    and    he    copied    their    styles.    the    1770s    he    was    commissioned    to    paint    portraits    of    the    Spanish    Royal    family,    often    portraying    them    as    comical    figures,    but    Goya    lost    his    sense    of    humour    in    1792    when    he    became    deaf    as    the    result    of    a    serious    illness.    His    painting    style    darker    to    match    his    increasingly    pessimistic    attitude    towards    life.    After    the    Franco-Spanish    war    in    1814,    he    painted    the    masterpiece    The    Third    of    May,    which    depicts    the    true    horror    of    war.    Of    all    the    periods    in    Goyas    career,    however,    it    is    the    work    he    completed  shortly    before    his    death    that    attracts    critical    attention.    In    particular,    The    Black    Paintings,    a    collection    of    fourteen    disturbing    and    sometimes    grotesque    images,    are    difficult    to    categorize.    Many    experts    think    that    they    express    Goyas    declining    mental    state,    his    of    faith    in    humanity,    and    his    fear    of    death.

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