The Father Eats His Son.
Inspried by Goya's Black Paintings.
“Perhaps the most startling of the Black Paintings was inspired by the picture Saturn Devouring His Son painted in 1636 by Rubens. Goya must have seen this painting in the Royal collection in Madrid. Rubens’ god is set in the middle of the composition. The anatomy is idealised, the horror of the scene underplayed. The god’s face is averted as he is caught up by the task in hand; the only legible expression is the child’s anguished face. Goya transforms this baroque model.
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