Colossus: A Novel About Goya and a World Gone Mad

viii, 563 pp. Francisco Goya. Everything about him was on the grand scale--his genius as an artist, his spectacular success and equally spectacular tragedy, and his passionate love for Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, the most desirable woman in Spain, who shared his own wildness and lust for life. Like one of Goya's own canvasses, Colossus is a magnificent portrait of a man painted in bold colors against a panoramic background of the dark and turbulent night of Spain. - jacket