Top 10 Most Disturbing Paintings

The Top Ten

1 L'Origine du monde - Gustave Courbet

I personally don't find it disturbing, just slightly embarrassing. What's more embarrassing and disturbing is looking at people looking, giving their opinion on it!

"Hmm...it doesn't look quite right, somehow..."

This painting is disturbing. No. Bad French artist. No

2 Saturn Devouring His Son - Francisco Goya

3 Judith Slaying Holofernes - Artemisia Gentileschi

4 A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows - William Blake

5 Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X - Francis Bacon

6 The Scream - Edvard Munch

7 Gallowgate Lard - Ken Currie

8 Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubicus) - Salvador Dali

9 The Flaying of the Corrupt Judge Sisamnes - Gerard David

10 Massacre of the Innocents - Peter Paul Rubens

The Contenders

11 The Temptation of St. Anthony - Salvator Rosa

12 The Examination - Wayne Barlowe

13 Figure with Meat - Francis Bacon

14 The Nightmare - Henry Fuseli

15 The Disasters of War - Francisco Goya

16 Saint Wolfgang and the Devil - Michael Pacher

17 Le Suicidé - Édouard Manet

18 Christ of Saint John of the Cross - Salvador Dali

19 Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) - Salvador Dali

20 The Fall of the Damned - Peter Paul Rubens

21 Seated Woman (Portrait of Muriel Belcher) - Francis Bacon

22 The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David

23 Le lion De Florence - Nicolas-André Monsiau

24 Burial of Atala - Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

25 Judith Beheading Holofernes - Caravaggio

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