Serious Works Of Art That Belong On A Metal Album
These artists are not playing.
![Serious Works Of Art That Belong On A Metal Album](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/2/737372_320x180.jpg?v=3)
High Art isn't all cherubs and dancing ladies. No. High Art is also blood and thunder and guts and other things that'd be at home on a metal album cover, but rendered with the skill and precision that album cover artists wouldn't even dare to dream of attaining.
Let us show you some examples:
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![Deterioration Of Mind Over Matterlooks like a literal metal album cover. It was painted in 1973 by Otto Rapp, an artist who went on to have dozens of](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/0/737650.jpg?v=2)
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![No, this isn't Cthulhu fan art. It's The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, painted between 1803 and 1805 by esteemed English poet a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/8/737648.jpg?v=2)
![Michelangelo hid a gory Easter egg in the Sistine Chapel. That's St. Bartholomew, holding his own flayed skin in his hand at the last judgment. Which](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/7/737647.jpg?v=2)
![This is William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Dante and Virgil. It's about two guys in the eighth circle of Hell trying to kill (re-kill?) each other as Dante](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/6/737646.jpg?v=2)
![Medieval artists thought that even dead people can be vain. In this detail from an illuminated manuscript from around 1500, this lady isn't letting a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/5/737645.jpg?v=2)
![This isn't an LSD addict painting his nightmares, it's high art. 16th-century Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch is known for painting some of the crazi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/4/737644.jpg?v=2)
![In early Renaissance art, the Devil was bizarre and disgusting. Forget the idea of a red guy with horns and a goatee- in art like The Devil Presenting](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/3/737643.jpg?v=2)
![These horses are absolutely not fucking around. Gustave Moreau's Diomedes Devoured by Horses looks like it was an outlet for the artist's rage and fru](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/2/737642.jpg?v=2)
![This 1498 painting shows a dude being skinned alive in public. It's hard to say what's worse everyone standing around calmly like they've gathered to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/1/737641.jpg?v=2)
![20th-century Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski must have had a hotline to the Devil in his head. He painted bizarre apocalypti scenes that make H.R. Gi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/0/737640.jpg?v=2)