The top 10 sexiest works of art ever

Antonio da Correggio, Jupiter and Io, ~1530

Zaria Forman, Greenland #62, 2012

Giovanni Boldini, Spanish Dancer at the Moulin Rouge, 1905

Left: Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Innocent X, 1650

Right: Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 50 cent Piece, 1983

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leeches, 1983

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog, 1903

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514

Grayson Perry's first Reith Lecture is terrific. Listen here.

Takashi Murakami, Flowers & Skulls

Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1894

"A deeply disillusioned man, he saw humanity as essentially bestial and the city of Berlin as a sink of depravity and deprivation, its streets crowded with unprincipled profiteers, prostitutes, war-crippled dregs and a variety of perverts. A communist, his feeling of social outrage stimulated him to produce the most biting drawings and paintings." ~ Trewin Copplestone

George Grosz, Metropolis, 1916-17

Evokes Magnus Mills' Explorers of the New Century.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice, 1824

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Ship in Stormy Seas, 1858

Eugène Thivier, The Nightmare, 1894

Henry Fuseli, Hamlet and his father's Ghost, ~1780-1785

Henry Fuseli, The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments, ~1778 - 1779

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Hans Kanters

Jeremy Mann, The Forgotten (Version One - Abandon), 2012

Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934

Erik Thor Sandberg, House, 2009