Goya is admitted to the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1780 as a public academic painter
In 1780 Goya was admitted to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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In 1780 Goya was admitted to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Context
An academy can be a guild rent and a school.
Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Admitted 1780 (académico de mérito). An academy post is a teaching-and-status public office. Assistants later trained in that ecology.
Why it matters
Academic membership is a public art-education status path in Madrid.
An academy chair is not Capricho 43.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Francisco Goya
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactGoya is admitted to the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1780 as a public academic painter
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 7 May 1780 · verified
Academic membership is a public art-education status path in Madrid.
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.Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San FernandoReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Francisco GoyaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Academia records and Britannica independently date the 1780 admission.
Established: 1780 San Fernando admission. Not established: that 1780 is 1799 satire.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorFrancisco Goya
- contributed toFactGoya is admitted to the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1780 as a public academic painter
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Goya is admitted to the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1780 as a public academic painter. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-san-fernando
https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-san-fernando
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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