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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1636405, member: 39"]OK with the first part; I just remember that, at least in German, the "desnuda" was/is usually translated, but not the "maja". So you would often see titles such as "Die nackte Maja" - and that looks as if Maja was the woman's name. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> As for the second one, isn't "vestida" an adjective here? Would be "Dressed Beauty" then ... By the way, the Maja Desnuda was also depicted on a Spanish postal stamp series about 80 years ago. Not as pretty as on Goya's painting though, hehe. <a href="http://www.artonstamps.org/goya.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.artonstamps.org/goya.htm" rel="nofollow">See here</a>, particularly the note at the bottom ("In the year 1930 the US government, through its U.S. Post Office Department, forbade and returned the letters coming from Spain that displayed the Naked Maja stamps") and the "commented set" then sold in the US. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Christian[/QUOTE]