Season 6 · Episode 19
S6E9: Francisco Goya and the Royal Philippine Dead End
The Colonial Department · The Colonial Department
January 23, 202516m 48s
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<html><p>In Francisco Goya’s painting <em>Junta de Filipinas</em>, sinister, shadowy figures preside over a stockholders’ meeting of the Royal Philippine Company. What was this Royal Philippine Company—and what was so important about it that Goya made a painting of one of its meetings? And more than that, what was Goya trying to say about this tumultuous period in Spanish and Philippine history?</p><p><br/></p><p>Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p><br/></p><p>Additional audio from the Ville de Castres YouTube page, and The Social Network, © 2010 Columbia Pictures. </p><p><br/></p><p>References: </p><p>Legarda, Benito J. (1999). <em>After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. </em>Ateneo de Manila Press.</p><p>Miranda-Chou, Teresita (1996). “Art as Political Subtext: A Philippine Centennial Perspective on Francisco Goya’s Junta de la Real Compañía de Filipinas.”<em> Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, 24</em>, pp. 187-215.</p><p>Alford, Roberta M. (June 1960). “Francisco Goya and the Intentions of the Artist.”<em> The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 18</em>(4), pp. 482-493.</p><p>Ville de Castres (26 April 2022). “L'OEUVRE A LA LOUPE : La Junte des Philippines #1.” [Video] YouTube.com. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdv9bs207cs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdv9bs207cs</a></p><p>Prodger, Michael (26 September 2015). “From princes to paupers: how Goya’s portraits tell the story of Spain.” <em>The Guardian</em>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/26/francisco-de-goya-portraits-national-gallery-london" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/26/francisco-de-goya-portraits-national-gallery-london</a></p><p>Dalrymple, William (2019). <em>The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.</em> Bloomsbury Publishing.</p><p>Harai, Yuval Noah (2015). <em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind</em> . Harper.</p></html>