Goya’s Black Paintings
From the Romantic era, Francisco de Goya was a Spanish painter. These days, he is perhaps most renowned for his 14 Black Paintings, which are truly incredible works of horror art. The most well-known of them is arguably Saturn Devouring His Son, which depicts the horrifying god Saturn (also known as Cronus) from Greek and Roman mythology, who ate his own offspring to keep them from overthrowing him when they reached adulthood.
Goya never meant for this or any of the other paintings to be viewed, despite how well-known they are today. He painted them on the walls of his own house, so we know this. Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger did not purchase the artist's residence and commission the works to be reproduced on canvas until several years after Goya's passing. They were on show at an exhibition in Paris, where individuals thought them to be distinctly offensive. The popularity of the paintings only increased from then to where it is today because, if there's one thing people adore, it's controversy. One of the best artists of the time is largely regarded as being Goya.
