# The Inquisition summons Goya in 1815 over the Nude Maja as a public morals-and-body file

Date: 1815

## The fact

In 1815 the Inquisition summoned [Goya](/people/francisco-goya) over the Nude Maja.

It is one event.

## Context

Legal-public tribunal only. Split later Prado hanging of both Majas as access.

Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

A March 1815 Inquisition demand required him to account for the Naked Maja (and related). He was a named subject of a morals tribunal. The pictures survive in the Prado. Tribunal speech-control is the path, not gossip about a duchess as this catalog’s Fact.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Prado Maja records and Britannica independently describe the Inquisition’s 1815 interest in the Nude Maja.

Official or archival record: Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/en; Museo Nacional del Prado).

## Significance

A summons is not the later museum wall.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1815 Inquisition summons over the Nude Maja. Not established: private sitter gossip as Fact.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Francisco Goya.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya
- https://www.museodelprado.es/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-maja-inquisition