The painting of Saturn devouring his son is possibly one of the most enigmatic of the work of Francisco de Goya. Even the title is misleading: not found in the old delusional none of the mythological attributes in art history, have characterized the pictorial representation of the Greek god look.And yet even released from its direct reference Goya's Saturn causes the viewer a deep unease. Where does your secret? In Goya and the abyss of the soul, essayist and philologist Hungarian László Földényi makes us partakers of the epiphany he experienced at the beginning of their studies of Goya's work, while dissects the keys that allow us to interpret this painting from a perspective completely novel. Rather than think of it as a political allegory or perhaps as a sophisticated representation of melancholy, analyzes each of the elements of the work to reach its ultimate substance: the worldv...read more
