CHILLING PAINTINGS
Added on: 14th Nov 2016
"THE FACE OF WAR",
BY SALVADOR DALI
Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dali used the never
ending of death to protest against war in his painting entitled
“The Face of War”, painted between the Spanish Civil War
and World War 2.
"A NEW YOU COULD BE BORN TODAY",
BY SANTIAGO CARUSO
Santiago Caruso is also known for his avant-garde language
in poetry and seemingly post-apocalyptic scenes.
"THE NIGHTMARE",
BY HENRY FUSELI
Henry Fuseli’s post famous painting, “The Nightmare”
conjures up chilling images of monsters under the
bed and things that go bump in the night.
"JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES",
BY CARAVAGGIO
Better known for his Baroque paintings such as
“The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew”, Caravaggio also
had a dark side. Here, the Italian painter illustrates the
Deuteronomy story of the widow Judith gruesomely
decapitating the charmed Assyrian general Holofernes.
"MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS",
BY PETER PAUL RUBENS
The Belgian painter Peter Paul Rubens brilliantly details the
brutality of King Herod’s infanticide crusade from the
Biblical Gospel of Matthew. Rubens’ painting captures the
shocking massacre of scores of children in this 1611-12 painting.
"DETERIORATION OF MIND OVER MATTER",
BY OTTO RAPP
Austrian Otto Rapp painted this raw and gruesome
decomposing human skull atop a cage in 1973.
"SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON",
BY PETER PAUL RUBENS
Various painters have depicted the Greek myth of the god
Cronus (Saturn in Roman mythology) eating his children
once they were born to prevent them from overthrowing him.
This Peter Paul Rubens version is especially gruesome due
to its life-like nature. (For another chilling version, search
for Spanish painter Goya’s depiction.)
"INFERNO",
BY ANONYMOUS
This painting of hell by an unknown author depicts the various
kinds of torture inflicted on humans in hell, including
stabbing, hanging, and boiling.
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