The Black Paintings remain private mural-oil in the Quinta del Sordo during Goya’s life
By 1823 the Black Paintings existed as mural-oil in Goya’s Quinta del Sordo, not as a public museum cycle. In the causal graph this event weakens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — a worsening welfare path.
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By 1823 the Black Paintings existed as mural-oil in Goya’s Quinta del Sordo, not as a public museum cycle. This Fact stores that private-house limit, not the later Prado transfer.
Context
Separate making from later public hanging. A private mural can be a laboratory and a closed file.
Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Painted c. 1819–1823 on house walls; transferred to canvas later (1870s) and then to the Prado. In his life they were a private house, not a public cycle. Delayed access is the harm; later Prado is the sibling door.
Why it matters
Keeping a major cycle on private walls is an education-access limit in his lifetime.
1823 house is not 1870s canvas transfer.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Francisco Goya
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.35 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe Black Paintings remain private mural-oil in the Quinta del Sordo during Goya’s life
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1823 · verified
Keeping a major cycle on private walls is an education-access limit in his lifetime.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Francisco GoyaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Museo Nacional del PradoMuseo Nacional del Prado · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Prado Black Paintings history and Britannica independently describe house origin and later transfer.
Established: Black Paintings as house murals c. 1819–23. Not established: that 1823 already had a Prado room.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorFrancisco Goya
- contributed toFactThe Black Paintings remain private mural-oil in the Quinta del Sordo during Goya’s life
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). The Black Paintings remain private mural-oil in the Quinta del Sordo during Goya’s life. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-black-private
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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