Love is exceptional. A loving care is portrayed in the painting made in 119 of The Last Communion of Sanjoside Calasanz . The mouth plays a role in Goya's art more prominent than in that of any other major artist. Mouths leer, grin, gape, gasp, moan, shriek, belch. A hanged man's mouth lies open and a woman reaches up to filch his teeth.
Grown men stick fingers in their mouths like sucking infants.
Mouths vomit, the sick gushing out of them, and a great furry beast sicks up a pile of human bodies. Saturn grips one of his children in his fists and with his mouth tears him limb from limb. Goya's version shows a bleeding remnant of a body, one of its stumps entering the hoary giant's gaping mouth. Goya's painting of an episode from the sixteenth-century novel El Lazarillo de Tormes is its comic counterpart. And mouths are focal points in many scenes other than those actually depicting oral aggression or symbolising oral sexuality.