Saturn Devouring His Son
$48.50 – $655.00
Saturn Devouring His Son is one of the most terrifying and impactful paintings of Francisco Goya’s Black Period. The painting features Saturn the Roman god of time and generation consuming his son. To the modern eye it seems a horrifying scene yet to contemporary eyes it told a more specific story about the royal family of Spain. As Franco’s regime was nearing an end this period became known as Goya’s black period as he explored bleak concepts like death decay conflict and insanity.
