Appears in 4 videos · 7 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Dominique Pagani returns above all to Saturn Devouring One of His Sons. In 2020, in the sessions on amnesia, he presents it as a "dreadful and splendid" painting, faithful to the letter of the Greek myth of time devouring its children12. In 2023, in the session on contradictory identity, his reading shifts: time that devours its children devours itself. He sees in it the figure of an internal contradiction, which he places within the nocturnal tradition of Spanish painting3. This self-devouring brings it close, for him, to negativity relating to itself4. He also notes that a text by Bonaventura seems to comment on the painting5. In 2024, in the session devoted to Napoleon, he mentions the painting of Spanish resisters shot by French soldiers, then The Disasters of War and the atrocities of the war in Spain6. He notes that Goya, an afrancesado, nonetheless follows King Joseph into exile7.
Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; Spanish:; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art. […]
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