All of this changes with the Saturn of 1820-24, one of the series known as the Black Paintings. What returned Goya to this subject? What did he recognize in himself that charged the work with such raw ...

Saturn is a fictionalised version of the personal ... The novel is built around the hypothesis that Goya's horrific series of "Black Paintings" were in fact the work of his son Javier, and were Javier ...