Ivan Aivazovsky, Battle of Çesme at Night, 1848

José Benlliure y Gil, La barca de Caront, 1919

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The (Great) Tower of Babel, 1563

"1944 was the year in which the plans of Nazi Germany had the greatest impact on the Nussbaum family. Philipp and Rahel Nussbaum were killed at Auschwitz in February. In July, Nussbaum and his wife were found hiding in an attic by German armed forces. They were arrested, sent to the Mechelen transit camp and given the numbers XXVI/284 and XXVI/285. On August 2 they arrived at Auschwitz, and a week later Felix was murdered at the age of 39. On September 3, Nussbaum’s brother was sent to Auschwitz, and on September 6 his sister-in-law and niece were also murdered there. In December, his brother – the last of the family – died from exhaustion in the camp at Stutthof. Within one year, the entire Nussbaum family had been murdered."

Felix Nussbaum, Triumph of Death, 1944

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Chatelaine (The Tocsin), 1895

Wyndham Lewis, A Reading of Ovid (Tyros), 1920

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, c1500

Jan van Eyck, Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych, 1440 – 1441

Detail of the right panel of the diptych.

Bridget Riley, Hesitate, 1964

Yves Klein, Leap into the Void, 1960. Photographed by Harry Shunk and János (Jean) Kender

William Hogarth, Gin Lane, 1753

Ben McLaughlin, Anyone Awake? Series, 2012

Egon Schiele, Portrait of Herbert Rainer, 1910

Salvador Dalí, Female Figure with Head of Flowers, 1937

Georg Scholz, Work is not degrading, 1921

Franz Sedlacek, Ghosts on the Tree, 1933

Hishikawa Moronobu, Beauty looking back, Edo Period, 17th century

Shoda Koho, Shrine Gate at Miyajima, 1871

Tsuchiya Koitsu, Suijin no Mori on the Sumida River, 1934

Jean Delville, La Roue du Monde, 1940