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Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya.It is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn, eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him.
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Maureen Lee Lenker. ... like you might get from Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco de Goya or Old Man's Death by László Mednyánszky. ... be it the dripping blood or the Goya-esque painting?
Saturn Devouring His Son, one of the Black Paintings by Goya (1819–1823). A series of parallel themes also exist in Disasters of War and the eponymous unnumbered print The Giant or Colossus , dating from between 1814 and 1818, [ 4 ] which shows a giant seated in a dark and desolate landscape with a crescent moon in the top corner.
Saturn Devouring His Son is a name given to one of around 14 works by Francisco Goya which comprise his so called "Black Paintings" series. Each was created when Goya was in his latter years and seemingly preoccupied both by fears for his own mental stability and a general loss of faith in the direction of contemporary Spanish society. Reason
The Third of May 1808, by Francisco Goya (edited by Papa Lima Whiskey 2) Rokeby Venus, by Diego Velázquez. ... Saturn Devouring His Son, by Francisco Goya.
He started them in his early 50s and finished in his late 70s. (Born in Aragon in 1746, Goya died at 82 in self-imposed exile in Bordeaux, France.)