The myth of Cronos
In Greek Mithology the divinity of time was Cronos, remembered for eating his sons, fearing they would kill him to take his reign [ES] [F] [E] [I] .
Several painters in different centuries were fascinated from this myth: very famous is the representation of Cronos created by Francisco Goya in the first half of XIX century, realized from the artist on the walls of his house, called "La Quinta del Sordo" (The House of the deaf, because Goya became deaf at the end of his life), and now located in Madrid (Spain) in the Museum of Prado [ES] [F] [I] [E] . In the representation of Goya, Cronos is terrible, a sort of monster who eats his son with rage, without any pity, showing big eyes, opened like in a sort of madness. In the same way, the real time eats everything that in it is generated, without any pity for life, beauty or youngness. So Goya uses the myth of Cronos as a symbol of the real condition of human being.
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