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Detail of Rubens’s Saturn Devouring a Son, showing the Roman god clutching and biting into the body of a child; an allegory of power’s fear of its heirs and its need for scapegoats.

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November 11, 2025

Scapegoating

In Saturn Devouring a Son, Peter Paul Rubens’ vision of a god consuming his child reveals the paranoia of[…]