Paintings

The story of Lady Godiva is one of the most well-known medieval legends of England, yet behind the popular narrative lies a complex historical framework that raises fundamental questions about female power, the interpretation of medieval sources, and the way symbolic narratives gradually transform into apparently historical facts.

Do you really think social media invented scandals and gossip? Of course not! In the 18th century, they were everywhere, and this masterpiece by Jean-Honoré Fragonard is the perfect example that the French aristocracy knew exactly how to have fun (and how to hide it). Life is Art, but sometimes, art is the evidence of the crime.

Among all the disturbing images that Francisco de Goya painted at the end of his life, few are as unsettling as The Witches’ Sabbath. There is no heroism, no classical beauty, and no decorative intention. There is fear, superstition, and an uncomfortable feeling: the sense of looking at something that was never meant to be seen.

Before Goya painted horror, horror already existed. It lived in myths, in the stories ancient civilizations used to explain the unexplainable: time, violence, power, and the fear of losing it all. Saturn —Cronos to the Greeks— was not a monster. He was a god. The god of time. And like every god who rules over something that cannot be stopped, he was condemned to paranoia.