The Cultural Tutor
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16 of the creepiest paintings ever made:
1. Saturn Devouring His Son by Peter Paul Rubens (1636)
2. The Flaying of Marsyas by Titian (1570)
3. Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas by Otto Dix (1924)
4. The Ghost of Oiwa by Hokusai (1830)
5. The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea by Thorvald Niss (c.1880)
6. The Harrowing of Hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch (c.1500)
7. Ghost of a Flea by William Blake (1820)
8. The Dead Lovers by an unknown German artist (c.1470)
9. The Apotheosis of War by Vasily Vereshchagin (1871)
10. From Thirty-Six Ghosts by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1882)
11. Angel Leading a Soul into Hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch (c.1500)
12. Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya (1823)
13. The Torment of Saint Anthony by Martin Schongauer (1488)
14. The Crying Spider by Odilon Redon (1872)
15. Detail from The Last Judgment by Fra Angelico (1430s)
16. Head VI by Francis Bacon (1949)

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