Listening to Professor Sexson talking about painters painting myths reminded me of this painting above. It is by Francis Goya. This is Kronos eating one of his children. As we know, Kronos was told that one of his children was going to overthrow him so he decided to eat them all until Zeus comes along and defeats Kronos. This is one of my favorite paintings by this artist because Francis Goya does not portray the gods as nice and kind. It is very dark, gloomy, and grotesque in a way. Creepy is an understatement. Just the way Kronos' eyes look is enough to make anyone cringe, and the look of the mangled, eaten body in his hands is gruesome. It makes me wonder if Goya had an idea of which god/goddess he was making Kronos eat in this painting.
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