Madness & Art


Hieronymous Bosch, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (The Cure of Folly), 1475-1480


Albrecht Durer, Melancholia, 1514


Pieter Breugel the Elder, Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), 1562


Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781


William Blake, Hecate


Theodore Gericault, Gambling Mania, 1822-23


Theodore Gericault, Insane Man, 1821-24


Goya, from The Black Paintings (Saturn Devouring his Son )


Goya, Saturn Devouring his Son (detail)


Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness, Crime, 1864


Alfred Kubin, Madness, 1914


Philip Evergood, Lily and the Sparrows, 1939