Top 10 Disturbing Paintings Of Modern Historical Atrocities

Support our efforts to make videos about what we want: https://ift.tt/2MDSQiC Before the invention of photography, mankind recorded its most frightening historical events via paintings. Such paintings often romanticized struggles, or else presented the scenes in distorted ways, to further convey the terror experienced at the time by our ancestors. This list features the ten most disturbing paintings that depict historical atrocities and disasters from the past 450 years or so. While not photographs, these haunting images nevertheless effectively capture the sheer horror of the events that occurred so many years ago. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://ift.tt/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: 10 Asylum Seeking Groups Sent Back To Their Fates https://youtu.be/NK_C3H3Q37w Top 10 Failed Assassinations That Would Have Changed History https://youtu.be/LLM_zjR1FPY?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKajPA6HFawry8Y3my_VX5Q Text version: https://ift.tt/2T2Y2PZ Coming up: 10. The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1565-1567) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 9. The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (ca. 1572-84) by François Dubois 8. The Execution of Charles I (1649) by John Weesop 7. The Death of Marat (1793) by Jacques-Louis David 6. Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa (1804) by Antoine-Jean Gros 5. The Third of May 1808 (1814) by Francisco Goya 4. The Raft of the Medusa (1818–1819) by Théodore Géricault 3. Souvenir of Civil War (1848) by Ernest Meissonier 2. Explosion (1917) by George Grosz 1. Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso Source/Further reading: https://ift.tt/2zHvSRL https://ift.tt/2T0l1v4 https://ift.tt/2zHvToN https://ift.tt/2T2Y3Dx https://ift.tt/1P7Z0D2 https://ift.tt/2n9EoVq https://ift.tt/2b5RoVP https://ift.tt/2AzYE9U https://ift.tt/2zHvUZT https://ift.tt/2dB65hu https://ift.tt/1feUdTc https://ift.tt/2lSPfRg https://ift.tt/2zHvX81 https://ift.tt/2eD2Ibp https://ift.tt/2zJvySR https://ift.tt/2T4Govc https://ift.tt/2zFHDby https://ift.tt/2T3gpo8 https://ift.tt/2zRHvpF https://ift.tt/2T2AGdy https://ift.tt/2zKpvx0 https://ift.tt/1GkYk9e