Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793

Honoré Daumier, The Chess Players, 1863

Edgar Degas, Dancer Putting on Her Slipper, 1896

Jean de Pomereu, Sans Nom 10

View of the pre-Hispanic Aztec city of Tenochtitlan (now part of Mexico city), the largest city in the world before its fall to Cortez in 1521.

Diego Rivera, Detail from The Marketplace Tlatelolco mural in the Palacio Nacional de Mexico, 1945

"Art must no longer be the expression of individual satisfaction (which) it is today, but should aim to become a fighting educative art for all." ~ David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros, The New Democracy, 1944

Edvard Munch, Attraction I, 1896

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882

John Brack, The Bar, 1954

John Brack, Collins St., 5 pm, 1955

Hand with Reflecting Sphere

Left version (original) by M. C. Escher, right version by Katsuhiro Otomo

Shohei Otomo

"Both English and Russian titles refer to the nautical tradition that waves grow larger and larger in a series up to the largest wave, the ninth (or tenth) wave, at which point the series starts again."

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave, 1859

The top 10 sexiest works of art ever

Antonio da Correggio, Jupiter and Io, ~1530

Zaria Forman, Greenland #62, 2012

Giovanni Boldini, Spanish Dancer at the Moulin Rouge, 1905

Left: Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Innocent X, 1650

Right: Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 50 cent Piece, 1983

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leeches, 1983

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog, 1903

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514