Francisco de Goya, Saturn (1819-1823) Luscious oils and the spring of canvas gave a taut sense of social humanity to his best portraits. Their light imbued flesh with a living quality, their faith to ...

But the spotlight belongs to a Francisco de Goya canvas, Saturn Devouring His Son (1820–23). “Goya painted 15 Black Paintings late in his life,” James smugly tells his guest, young trader ...

Saturn devouring his son, Francisco Goya (1919-1923) In the painting, Goya has illustrated a naked man with dishevelled hair and wide-eyed stare, who has already eaten the head of his child.

Jay Scott Morgan _____ The Mystery of Goya's Saturn The image is ineffaceable: the cannibal god on bended knees, engulfed in darkness; the mad haunted eyes and black-blooded mouth; the rending fingers ...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), known simply as Goya, was driven by a fierce, almost childlike curiosity about human nature and went through several artistic stages.