This painting is famed for the anamorphic skull at the bottom.

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533

Paul Cézanne, Pyramid of Skulls, 1901

Happy Saturnalia!

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, ~1820

"Diogenes made a virtue of poverty. He begged for a living and slept in a large stone jar in the marketplace. He became notorious for his philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man. He embarrassed Plato, disputed his interpretation of Socrates and sabotaged his lectures. Diogenes was also responsible for publicly mocking Alexander the Great."

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Diogenes, 1860

Michelangelo, Pietà, 1499

"The Erinyes [called the Furies in Ancient Rome] were the punishers of sinners, called 'those who walk in darkness.' Weeping tears of blood and hissing with hair of vipers, they would descend like a storm. As long as there was sin in the world, they could not be banished." ~ Aeschylus

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Remorse of Orestes, 1862

Mosaic, ~30 B.C., Pompeii

Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set, 1949-50

Lori Nix, At Sea, 2004

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman with a Black Feather Boa, 1864

Tamara de Lempicka

Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauk, Le Combat du Centaure, 1900

Photo by Robert Doisneau, 1971

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Thinking of you), 2000

Jenny Holzer, SLIPPING INTO MADNESS IS GOOD FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARISON, 2008

Eliza Frye, Jean Grey from the X-Men, 2011

Richard Hamilton, The Citizen, The State & The Subject, 1980s-1990s

See it large

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death