DailyArt Magazine Highlights Top 10 Strange and Bizarre Paintings
DailyArt Magazine has released a compilation of the ten most unusual and eccentric paintings spanning from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Among the notable pieces are Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (c.1480-1505) housed in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Jusepe de Ribera's Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son (1631); and Quentin Massys's The Ugly Duchess (c.1513) in the National Gallery, London. Other highlights include Jean Fouquet's Melun Diptych (1452), Francis Bacon's Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) at the Des Moines Art Centre, Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son (1821-1823), Caravaggio's Medusa (1595-1598) in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, William Adolphe-Bouguereau's Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Giuseppe Arcimboldo's The Vegetable Gardener (1587-1590), and the Fontainebleau School's Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters (c.1594) at the Louvre, Paris.
Key facts
- DailyArt Magazine published a list of top 10 strange and bizarre paintings.
- The list includes Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (c.1480-1505), housed in Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
- Jusepe de Ribera's Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son (1631) depicts a bearded woman breastfeeding, commissioned by the Viceroy of Naples.
- Quentin Massys's The Ugly Duchess (c.1513) in the National Gallery, London, was once thought satirical but recent analysis suggests Paget's disease.
- Jean Fouquet's Melun Diptych (1452) features the Virgin Mary with exposed breast, modeled by Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII.
- Francis Bacon's Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) reinterprets the pope's scream, held at the Des Moines Art Centre.
- Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son (1821-1823) shows the titan eating his child, painted on Goya's dining room wall.
- Caravaggio's Medusa (1595-1598) depicts the severed head on a shield, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Entities
Artists
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Quentin Massys
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Jean Fouquet
- Francis Bacon
- Diego Velázquez
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Francisco Goya
- Caravaggio
- William Adolphe-Bouguereau
- Dante
- Virgil
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- Agnes Sorel
- Magdalena Ventura
- Cappochio
- Gianni Schinni
- Engelbert, Count of Nassau
- Etienne Chevalier
- King Charles VII
- King Henry IV
- Duchess de Villars
- Gabrielle d'Estrées
- Emperor Maximilian II
- Emperor Rudolf II
Institutions
- DailyArt Magazine
- Museo Nacional del Prado
- Museo Fondación Duque de Lerma
- National Gallery
- Gemäldegalerie
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts
- Des Moines Art Centre
- Galleria Doria Pamphilj
- Uffizi Gallery
- Musée d'Orsay
- Museo Civico Ala Ponzone
- Louvre
Locations
- Madrid
- Spain
- Toledo
- London
- UK
- Berlin
- Germany
- Antwerp
- Belgium
- Des Moines
- IA
- USA
- Rome
- Italy
- Florence
- Paris
- France
- Cremona
- Abruzzi
- Naples