Saturn Devouring His Son | Francisco de Goya | 1823 17th Century often allegorically exploring death and

often allegorically exploring death and mortality in the context of a strange

Despite an aristocratic background

or perhaps the concealment of one's true identity

1858–1919) presents a haunting

Saturn Devouring His Son | Francisco de Goya | 1823 17th Century often allegorically exploring death andSaturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally interpreted as a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (known as Saturn in Roman mythology) eating one of his offspring. Fearing a prophecy foretold by Gaea that predicted he would be overthrown by one of his children, Saturn ate each one upon their birth. The work is one of the 14 so called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of