10 controversial paintings by famous artists that not everyone dares to hang at home

The paintings of famous masters are admired. They seek to acquire, if not originals, then at least reproductions. But among the huge number of paintings by great masters there are those that look frankly terrible, and hanging them at home is not at all recommended, unless, of course, you want to sleep peacefully.

1. “Diomedes devoured by horses.” Gustave Moreau
In the myths of the exploits of Hercules, the eighth task that the hero must fulfill is to steal the mares of Diomedes, king of Thrace. It would seem that stealing horses should be a simple matter for the son of God, but these were horses that were fed by humans. Not knowing that these horses are crazy, Hercules leaves them with his companions, whom the bloodthirsty animals killed and ate.

As a punishment for Diomedes for raising such monsters, Hercules fed him to his own horses. This plot formed the basis of the picture of Moreau, on which you can see how Hercules carelessly looks at the “revenge” of the horses of Diomedes. Moreau is famous for his symbolic paintings on biblical and mythological subjects, but not one of them is as bloody as this. Continue reading →