Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter born in 1746 in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza who died in 1828 in Bordeaux, France. He served as the official painter to King Charles III and King Charles IV of Spain. In the winter of 1972, Goya suffered a terrible illness that left him deaf. One of his paintings from this period depicted a man in white and brown clothes holding a lantern, using dark colors that conveyed fear and disgust over the harming of innocents.