Nineteenth-century

In "Christ at the sea of Galilee" Alessandro Magnasco painted a scene from the episode where Christ's disciples are on a boat caught in a terrible storm. Jesus walked to them on the water to reassure them and invited Peter to join him.

Heinrich Lossow represents "Leda and the Swan" as they are fornicating in the grass in the middle of the forest.

Giovanni Paolo Panini’s "Architectural Capriccio With a Preacher in Roman Ruins" stages an imaginary sermon inside a grand, invented city of antiquity. Towering Corinthian columns, broken archways, and fragments of entablature frame the scene like a stone theater.

Goya’s "Saturn Devouring His Son" shows the crazed god in a dark void violently eating his child, turning a classical myth into a raw vision of fear, madness, and the darkest side of human nature.

“The Naked Maja” by Francisco Goya was a very controversial painting at the time, showcasing the artist’s bold exploration of sensuality and of the female form. One reason the painting was so controversial is that it was an unapologetic portrait of a nude woman, without hiding behind the false pretense of mythology or religion.

Richard Parkes Bonington - View of the Lagoon Near Venice

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.

Anton Raphael Mengs - The Judgment of Paris

Paul Albert Laurens - The bathers

Eugene de Blaas - In the water

Madeleine Lemaire - Le sommeil de Manon

Edward Poynter - The cave of the storm nymphs

Henrietta Rae - The sirens

Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner - Reclining female nude

Luis Ricardo Falero - Reclining nude

Marie-Marguerite Turner - Nude sitting in a chair

Albert Fourié - Young bathers in fountain

Annie Swynnerton - Cupid and Psyche

Eduard Ansen-Hofmann - New arrival (slave market)

Jean-Léon Gérôme - The birth of Venus

Paul Merwart - Daydreaming

Saint George Hare - Victory of Faith

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The roses of Heliogabalus

Hans Dahl - Daughters of Rán

Vlaho Bukovac - Reclining nude

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The tepidarium

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Dawn (aka The girl with a lily)

Heinrich Lossow - The sin (Die Versündigung)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The birth of Venus

Henri Gervex - Rolla

Auguste Alexandre Hirsch - Nyx (goddess of the Night)

Pierre Auguste Cot - Springtime

Henri Lehmann - The source (or the water)

Alexandre Cabanel - The birth of Venus

Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval - Birth of Venus

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The Turkish bath (Le bain turc)

Sir Frederic Leighton - Flaming June

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Phryne before the Areopagus

Marià Fortuny - The odalisque

Gustave-Henri-Eugene Delhumeau - Nude lying on a chaise longue

Francesco Hayez - The kiss (El beso)

Sir Frederic Leighton - The fisherman and the siren

Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov - The appearance of Christ before the people

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - The morning of the Feast of Corpus Christi (Am Fronleichnamsmorgen)

Nicaise de Keyser - The Orient and the Occident

Rosa Bonheur - The Horse Fair

Ary Scheffer - Heavenly and earthly Love

Nils Blommér - Daughters of Ægir and Rán

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Women bathing at the brook

Ludwig Löffler - Sitting nude of a girl bathing

Thomas Couture - Romans during the Decadence

Félix Trutat - Reclining woman on panther skin (repos et désirs)

Natale Schiavoni - Adam and Eve

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Snow storm- steam-boat off a harbor's mouth

Theodore Chassériau - The Toilette of Esther

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The spring

Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up

Thomas Cole - The Course of the Empire- 3. Consummation

Thomas Cole - The Course of the Empire- 4. Destruction

Thomas Cole - The Course of the Empire- 5. Desolation

Caspar David Friedrich - The stages of Life

Thomas Cole - The course of the Empire- 1. Savage state

Thomas Cole - The Course of the Empire- 2. The Arcadian or Pastoral State

Eduard Daege - The invention of painting

Aimée Brune-Pagès - Sleep (Le sommeil)

Eugène Delacroix - Liberty leading the People (La Liberté conduisant le Peuple)

William Etty - Half-figure of a female nude reclining

John Constable - Seascape study with rain cloud

Caspar David Friedrich - The sea of ice (Das Eismeer)

John Constable - The hay wain

William Etty - The triumph of Cleopatra

Théodore Géricault - The raft of the Medusa (Le radeau de la Méduse)

Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the sea of fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer)

Jacques-Louis David - Love and Psyche

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - The third of May 1808 (El Tres de Mayo)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The great odalisque (La grande odalisque)

Jacques-Louis David - The coronation of Napoleon (Le sacre de Napoléon)

Marie-Denise Villers - Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes

Anonymous - Young girl (Jeune fille)

Marie-Guillemine Benoist - Portrait of Madeleine

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon - Venus and Adonis

Jacques-Louis David - The intervention of the Sabine women

William Blake - Europe supported by Africa and America

William Blake - Isaac Newton

Jacques-Louis David - The death of Marat (Marat assassiné)

Joshua Reynolds - Cupid untying the zone of Venus

Joshua Reynolds - The age of innocence

Henry Fuseli - The nightmare

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - The broken pitcher (La cruche cassée)

Thomas Gainsborough - The blue boy (portrait of Jonathan Buttall)

Joseph Wright of Derby - An experiment on a bird in an air pump

Francesco Guardi - Miracle of a Dominican saint (Miracolul Sf. Duminici)

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Roman capriccio- the Colosseum and other monuments