Saturne: Peintures noires des hommes de la famille goya

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Morden, Karen & Pulimood, Stephen (2006). Stephen Farthing (ed.). 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. London: Quintet Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84403-563-8.

Again and again, ‘Saturn Devouring His Son’ can represent the powerlessness, circumvention of consent and emotional numbness which so troubled Goya: it’s also become a very well-known painting, ironically, but it’s certainly one which resonates with many, and if not quite as ubiquitous as Munch’s Scream, there’s something about Goya’s painting which has given it lasting appeal, making it recognisable nearly two centuries after it was created. You can also see echoes of it in unusual places: Ilya Repin’s painting of Ivan the Terrible and His Son has the same blank dread in Ivan’s expression, and Spanish filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro gives a nod to Goya’s Saturn in Pan’s Labyrinth, his own fantasy-satire of Spain at war. Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1985, pp. 293, n. 798. en) Evan Connell, Francisco Goya: A Life, Counterpoint, 2004, 246 p. ( ISBN 978-1-58243-307-3), p.256

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Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1985, pp. 283, n. 763. Calvo Serraller, Francisco, Goya. Obra pictórica, Ramdon House Mondadori, Barcelona, 2009, pp. 284. Paolini, C, 'P.P.Rubens. Saturno divora i figli', Rubens e la nascita del Barocco, Marsilio Editori, 2016, pp. 210-211 n.52. allegory for the ideas that Goya was thinking about at this moment. Beth: Of power? Steven: Of power and the way Diego Velázquez: Velázquez painted a portrait of Philip IV of Spain holding a statue of Saturn, which is thought to be a commentary on the king's power and the idea of the ruler as a devourer of his subjects.

Some of his famous artworks include the oil paintings The Second of May 1808 (1814) and The Third of May 1808 (1814). He was also a printmaker and produced numerous etchings, such as The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (c. 1799), which was part of his Los Caprichos (c. 1799) series of aquatint etchings. Sancho, J.L., El Palacio de Carlos III en el Pardo, Fund. Apoyo Historia Arte Hispánico, Madrid, 2002, pp. 128-130.

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Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya was painted between 1819 and 1823, during a period of political and social turmoil in Spain. Goya had witnessed the horrors of the Peninsular War, which had raged across Spain for six years and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. The war had been fought between the French and Spanish armies, with many Spanish citizens forced to fight on both sides.