Goya’s "Yard with Madmen" shows a bleak asylum courtyard where distressed, half-naked patients move in chaos under harsh light, exposing both the torment of mental illness and the cruelty of how society confines it.
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Rubens’s Saturn shows the powerful old god in a swirling, dramatic sky clutching his child and tearing flesh from his chest, turning a violent myth into a tense moment of fear, power, and tragic inevitability.
Anton Raphael Mengs - The Judgment of Paris
Colart de Laon - The Agony in the Garden with the Donor Louis I d’Orléans
František Šindelář's painting "Two nude girls" depicts two girls reclining on the grass in the forest near what seems to be a brook.