The paintings of Francisco Goya are not just art, but a diary of his entire life, encrypted in his self-portraits. In a lecture at the "Na Stremyannoy" library, art historian and Hispanist Ksenia Kuznetsova invites you to look at the work of Francisco Goya from an unusual angle. The focus is on the self-portraits of the great Spaniard, which become a chronicle of his life and internal transformations. From the first images of the budding painter to the dark paintings of his later period - each self-portrait allows us to read the emotional state of the author. We see how Goya changed: from a confident court portraitist to a tragic witness of the era. His gaze - sometimes ironic, sometimes detached, sometimes filled with pain - becomes a mirror of the entire history of Spanish and European art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Find other events in Saint Petersburg on KudaGo.