Goya’s "Saturn Devouring His Son" shows the crazed god in a dark void violently eating his child, turning a classical myth into a raw vision of fear, madness, and the darkest side of human nature.
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Rubens’s Saturn shows the powerful old god in a swirling, dramatic sky clutching his child and tearing flesh from his chest, turning a violent myth into a tense moment of fear, power, and tragic inevitability.