The Minefield

Facing the darkness: The moral challenge of Goya’s “Saturn devouring his son” (1823)

09.06.2023 - By ABC listenPlay

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Spanish painter Francisco de Goya’s depiction of Saturn eating his son is a haunting portrait of lust and the fear of one’s own finitude. Christos Tsiolkas joins Waleed and Scott to look into that darkness, and discover what looks back.

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