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It is bizarre, I agree.
You know SOMEONE will be posting the graphic up, but I agree with your reasoning not to.
I wouldn’t say disturbed, as much as it it simply honest.
That is what the mythos teach, that being Chronos or Saturn ate his children to prevent them from overthrowing him.
The reality is probably different, such as Saturn throwing his children into some deep dungeon aeons ago.
cannibalism is a lovely thing.... heh
Look up some of Goya’s Disasters of War etchings. Several of the soldiers depicted look a lot like Saturn in this. Specifically one with a Russian type hat (I assume it is a French soldier considering what was going on then).
“Old Men Eating” is somewhat sick as well. Actually all labeled “Dark Paintings” make me thankful Goya isn’t living next door.
Are you an Islamaphobe, EveningStar?
I don’t really see your point in posting this. I didn’t look at it and why would I want to?
Supposedly Goya had the painting hanging in the dining room of his home. Perhaps that’s only apocryphal, or perhaps he really didn’t like having guests over for dinner.
Goya is quite an interesting artist. He painted portraits of the elite. Then during a Spanish civil war, his paintings became very disturbing - depicting atrocities of war in an almost cartoonish manner. I remember several of empalements that I saw in Spain. Paintings by a man who appears to have been plunged into the hell of a very nasty war. He later paintings show raw emotion. Such a contrast from the detail and control of his earlier courtly works.
I never felt the painting corresponded to the myth, because Saturn’s children were the Roman gods such as Neptune and Demeter- they were immortals, and later escaped when Jupiter (the sixth son) forced his father to vomit them up.