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Goya filled his dining room with terrifying murals

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Rather than decorating his house with pleasant landscapes or family portraits, the increasingly deaf and cynical Spanish artist literally covered his walls with horrific images of giants eating people. He never actually intended for anyone else to see them, treating his own dining area like a personal haunted house of existential dread.

Goya filled his dining room with terrifying murals
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