“This painting is in the room 79 in the Museo del Prado. The first thing you notice here is how violently Saturn is grabbing and eating his child, showing fear and madness in his face. He made the scene full of movement and strong emotions, with dramatic lighting and dark shadows that make it feel intense and scary. Regarding the technique, Rubens used oil paints on canvas, with dramatic brushwork and lighting typical of the Baroque style. This painting was created between 1636 and 1638 in Antwerp, Belgium. The artist is Peter Paul Rubens, usually known as Rubens only. A famous Flemish painter known for his dramatic and emotional Baroque style. He was born in 1577 in Belgium and died in 1640. It evokes powerful emotions like fear, horror and desperation. The painting explores dark ideas like the fear of losing power, the cruelty of fate and the destructive side of human nature. It shows the god Saturn eating one of his children, to stop a prophecy that say one of them would overthrow him. Rubens might be trying to show the terrify consequence of unchecked power and fear of how someone can become cruel when they are obsessed with control and afraid of being replaced. Compared to other artworks like Goya's version, Rubens' painting is more theatrical and mythological while Goya is darker and more emotional. From our point of view, this painting represents in a perfect way fear and desperation and it can be scary too. That is because of the blood and the fact that is a parent eating his own child and all the darkness it has. Rubens made a piece of art and he achieved the goal of transmitting fear. Do you feel it?"