false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181389762m/1145403.jpg 1145403 4 In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness that left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book, Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence, and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw around him into visionary paintings, drawings, and etchings. These were also years of tenderness for Goya, of intimate relationships with the Duchess of Alba and with Leocadia, his mistress, who accompanied him to the end. <br><br>Blackburn&#8217;s singular distinction as a biographer is her uncanny ability to create a kaleidoscope of biography, memoir, history, and meditation&#8212;to think herself into another world. In Goya she has found the perfect subject. 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