Our TOp 14

Creepy Paintings

introduction to scary artwork

Scary artists have represented the horrific in artworks throughout time, examining topics such as mortality, brutality, and the otherworldly. Scary artwork was used in Medieval Europe to probe the consequences of diseases such as the plague, spanning from the otherworldly to the commonplace.

#1

Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation (c. 1485) Hans Memling

#2

The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505) Hieronymus Bosch

#3

The Triumph of Death  (1562) Pieter Bruegel the Elder

#4

The Flaying of Marsyas  (1576) Titian

#5

Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez (1595) Lavinia Fontana

#6

Massacre of the Innocents (1611) Peter Paul Rubens

#7

The Nightmare  (1781) Henry Fuseli

#8

The Severed Heads  (1810) Théodore Géricault

#9

Saturn Devouring His Son (1823) Francisco de Goya

#10

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter (1844) Utagawa Kuniyoshi

#11

Dante and Virgil (1850)  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

#12

Aurora Triumphans  (1876)  Evelyn de Morgan

#13

Pyramid of Skulls  (1901) Paul Cézanne

#14

The Death of Marat II  (1907) Edvard Munch