“Saturn Devouring His Son” - a painted oil mural (later on transferred to canvas) created by a Spanish painter Francisco Goya on one of the walls inside his house between the years 1819 - 1823.

The painting depicts a Titan, Cronus (Saturn was his Roman name) devouring one of his children. According to the Greek myth, Cronus, with his wife (and sister at the same time) Rhea, has fathered quite a few children, all of them being the Greek gods we all are familiar with (Zeus, Hades and Poseidon among many others). Fearing that one day one of his children might overthrow him, Cronos decided to get rid of them all, by simply… swallowing them.

Only one child escaped the cruel fate: Zeus, the youngest of his siblings. As soon as he was born, his mother hid him in a cave of Mount Ida on Crete, and gave her husband a rock wrapped in cloth.

When Zeus reached adulthood he defeated his father and released his other siblings free, forcing Cronus to disgorge them.