Goya by Enriqueta Harris
This book on Goya had an unfortunate layout where the descriptive text for the color plates was all in the back, like end notes. So you have to flip back and forth. The biographical data in the front of the book was reasonably thorough but no real attempt was made to examine Goya’s work.
The painting themselves I only find interesting in his dark and gloomy phases, mostly towards the end of his life. Earlier on he did a lot of pretty generic portraits and pastoral scenes. The book didn’t explain why Goya deviated into such dark works later on in life, but those are the paintings he’s remembered for. One interesting possibility the book raised was that the Colossus in his famous work is a savoir, throwing the French out of Spain, not a monster. I don’t know. He’s a pretty scary looking savoir.