It is the painting known as Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, by Francisco Goya, an image that has been imprinted on my psyche since I first viewed it in college, in 1969. Critics have called his ...

This delicate detail was revealed only after a modern restoration. Goya kept the painting long after the Duchess’s death in 1802. In 1958 MGM even released a feature-length film about a romance ...

Though he suffered a near-fatal illness at age 47 that left him deaf, Goya went on to paint some of his most famous canvases, including his scandalous, at the time, Naked Maja. This aspect of Goya ...