Adoration of the Name of God

Fresco painting by Francisco de Goya

Adoration of the Name of God

Spanish: Adoración del nombre de Dios
Artist| Francisco Goya
Year| 1772
Type| Oil ceiling fresco
Dimensions| 700 cm × 1500 cm (280 in × 590 in)
Location| Basílica del Pilar, Zaragoza
Francisco Goya: "The Name of God", YHWH in triangle, fresco detail.

The Adoration of the Name of God (Spanish: Adoración del nombre de Dios) or The Glory (Spanish: La gloria) (1772) is a fresco painted by Francisco Goya on the ceiling of the cupola over the Small Choir of the Virgin in the Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Zaragoza.

## History

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After returning from travelling in Italy to develop his knowledge in 1771, Goya received the commission to decorate the vault over the small choir of the Basílica del Pilar in Zaragoza, with a painting on the adoration of the name of God, in the execution of which he amply demonstrated his mastery of the techniques of fresco painting. His remuneration, however, was less than that of the other artists working on the ceilings of the basilica: Goya received 15,000 reales in comparison with the 25,000 paid to, for example, Antonio González Velázquez.

## Description

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The work in its final execution displays the stereotypes of Late Baroque Catholic religious painting. To either side are arranged groups of angels directing the attention to the central scene, dominated by the symbol of the Christian Trinity and Godhead: an equilateral triangle inscribed with the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew. Because the various groups are situated at different altitudes, the final impression is rather static, dominated by a composition in the shape of an "X", the result of Goya's intention to have the lines of force coming in from the corners and crossing in the centre.

Various sketches and preparatory drawings for the work have been preserved which display more accomplishment than the painting on the cupola shows in actuality, although it must be borne in mind that the fresco has been restored no less than four times, in 1887, 1947, 1967 and 1991. In them Goya planned a composition of great contrast in the colouring and the illumination, and with a considerably greater dynamism in the movement than is visible in the finished product.

## See also

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* Name of God in Christianity
* List of works by Francisco Goya

## References

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* Bozal, Valeriano, Francisco Goya, vida y obra, 1 vol., Madrid, Tf., 2005, págs. 30–31. ISBN 84-96209-39-3.

## External links

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* Universidad de Zaragoza: catalogue of Goya's works (in Spanish)
* Media related to Adoration of the Name of God (Goya) at Wikimedia Commons

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List of works

Paintings|

| Paintings|

* Consecration of Aloysius Gonzaga (c. 1763)
* The Holy Family with Saints Joachim and Anne (c. 1769)
* The Rape of Europa (1772)
* Christ Crucified (1780)
* The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783–84)
* The Greasy Pole (1786–87)
* The Drunk Mason (1786–87)
* Paintings for the alameda of the Dukes of Osuna (1786–87)
* Saint Bernard of Clairvaux curing a cripple (1787)
* Yard with Lunatics (1793–94)
* Prison Interior (1793–94)
* Assault of Thieves (1793–94)
* The Duchess of Alba and la Beata (1795)
* Witches' Flight (1797–98)
* The Bewitched Man (1797–98)
* Witches' Sabbath (1798)
* La maja desnuda (c. 1797–1800)
* La maja vestida (1800–1805)
* Allegory of Industry (c. 1805)
* Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812)
* The Water Bearer (1808–1812)
* The Knifegrinder (1808–1812)
* Still Life of a Lamb's Head and Flanks (1808–1812)
* The Colossus (after 1808)
* Truth, Time and History (1812–1814)
* The Madhouse (1812–1819)
* The Inquisition Tribunal (1812–1819)
* The Second of May 1808 (1814)
* The Third of May 1808 (1814)
* The Junta of the Philippines (1815)
* A Village Bullfight (1815–1819)
* The Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816)
* A Procession of Flagellants (c. 1816)
* The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time (1770–71)
* The Forge (c. 1817)
* Bullfight (1824)

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Portraits|

* The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children (1787–88)
* Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (or Red Boy) (c. 1788)
* Self-portrait at an Easel (c. 1790-1795)
* La Tirana (1792)
* La Tirana (1794)
* Portrait of the Marquise de la Solana (1795)
* The White Duchess (1795)
* Portrait of Charles IV of Spain (c. 1795)
* The Black Duchess (1797)
* Bernardo de Iriarte (1797)
* Portrait of Ferdinand Guillemardet (1798–99)
* Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes (1799)
* Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma
* The Countess of Chinchon (1800)
* Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–01)
* Portrait of Manuel Godoy (1801)
* Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel (1804–05)
* Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz (1805)
* Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1805)
* Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1810–11)
* Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812)
* Self-portrait at 69 years (1815)
* Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820)
* Portrait of Don Ramón Satué (1823)
* The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (1825–1827)

Frescoes|

* Adoration of the Name of God (1772)
* Frescoes in the Cartuja de Aula Dei (1774)

Tapestry
cartoons
(list)|

* The Boar Hunt (1775)
* The Parasol (c. 1777)
* Boys playing soldiers (1778–79)
* Children in a Chariot (1779)
* The Swing (1779)
* La novillada (1780)
* The Grape Harvest (1786)
* Summer (1786–87)
* The Drunk Mason (1786–87)
* The Threshing Floor (1786–87)
* Blind Man's Bluff (1789)
* The Wedding (1791–92)

Black Paintings
(c. 1819–1823)|

* Saturn Devouring His Son
* Judith and Holofernes
* Witches' Sabbath
* A Pilgrimage to San Isidro
* La Leocadia
* Two Old Men
* Men Reading
* Man Mocked by Two Women
* Fight with Cudgels
* Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro
* Atropos
* Asmodea
* Two Old Ones Eating Soup
* The Dog

Print series|

| Los Caprichos (1797–98)|

* And so was his grandfather
* The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

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The Prisoners (1810–1815)|

The Disasters of War (1810–1820)|

* This is worse (c. 1812–13)

La Tauromaquia (1815–16)|

* Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of Torrejón

Los Disparates (1815–1823)|

* A way of flying (c. 1815–16)

The Bulls of Bordeaux (1824–25)|

Depictions|

* The Naked Maja (1958 film)
* Goya, a Story of Solitude (1971 film)
* Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971 film)
* Goya: A Life in Song (1989 album)
* Goya in Bordeaux (1999 film)
* Volavérunt (1999 film)
* Goya's Ghosts (2006 film)
* The Ministry of Time – Episode 25: Time of the Enlightened (2017)

Related|

* Josefa Bayeu (wife)
* Quinta del Sordo
* Leocadia Zorrilla
* Rosario Weiss Zorrilla
* Goya Museum
* Birthplace
* Goya Awards

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