CAS AH 287 Lecture 5: Spanish Art V
2 Oct 2016
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Saturn devouring one of his children they illustrate a journey from reality into a dream world, in which evil comes alive. He had seen the world change form a place ruled by reason and optimism to one controlled by fear, madness and destruction. Saturn devouring one of his children represents goya s conclusion that mankind is ultimately self destructive, for to kill ones offspring is to kill the future. In 1819, goya purchased a house on the banks of. Manzanares near madrid called quinta del sordo (villa of the deaf man). It was a two-story house which was named after a previous occupant who had been deaf, although the name was fitting for goya too, who had been left deaf after contracting a fever in 1792. Between 1819 and 1823, when he left the house to move to bordeaux, Goya produced a series of 14 works, which he painted with oils directly onto the walls of the house.
