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  "summary": "Spanish painter and etcher (1746-1828), court painter to three kings, whose career runs from Rococo tapestry cartoons to the war reportage of the 3rd of May 1808 and the black paintings of his own walls — the documented arc from old-regime court art into modern painting. Deaf from 1792, exiled to Bordeaux in 1824, he died there in 1828.",
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    "Why is Goya considered the first modern painter?"
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      "text": "Goya was appointed court painter to Charles III in 1786 and First Painter to Charles IV in 1799, serving three kings across the collapse of the old regime; a severe illness left him deaf in 1792.",
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      "text": "He witnessed the Peninsular War and the repression that followed and recorded them — in works such as the 3rd of May 1808 — and decorated his own house with the black paintings, the sombre late register the National Gallery's account emphasizes.",
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      "text": "His clothed and nude Majas answer Velázquez's Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery's own telling — one Spanish court painter replying to another across 150 years; Goya went into exile in Bordeaux in 1824 and died there in 1828.",
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  "winning_edge": "Goya content is abundant; claim-bound Goya is not. The arc from court Rococo to war reportage to the black paintings — and the exile ending that joins him to the instance's recurring exile thread — comes from a major holding institution's account, with the Velázquez dialogue carried by the graph.",
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