- Caravaggio, Medusa (1597)
- Bruce Conner, Child (1959-60)
- Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1510)
- Cindy Sherman, Untitled #153 (1985)
- James Ensor, Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (1891)
- Production still from Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3 (2002)
- Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632)
- Gregory Crewdson, Untitled (1998)
- René Magritte, Le Mois des Vendanges (1959)
- Still from Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho (1960)
- Peter Paul Rubens, Saturn Devouring His Son (1636)
- Adriana Varejão, Green Tilework in Live Flesh (2000)
- Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony (c.1487-88)
- Otto Dix, Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor (Storm Troops Advance under Gas Attack) from Der Krieg (The War) (1924)
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The Bewitched Man (c.1798)
- Still from Tunga, Laminadas Almas (Laminated Souls) performance in Rio de Janeiro (20 May 2006)
- Odilon Redon, The Smiling Spider (1891)
- Giovanni di Paolo, The Beheading of St. John the Baptist (1455-60)
- John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781)
- José Guadalupe Posada, The Apparition of the Ghost of Don Juan Manuel to Pachita la Alfajorera (c.1893)
- William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar (1795-c.1805)
- Maurizio Cattelan, All (2007)
- Alfred Kubin, Sterbender Papst (Dying Pope) (1905-06)
- Egyptian mummy, National Archaeology Museum, Madrid, Spain
- Paul Delvaux, The Sleeping Venus (1944)
- Vincent van Gogh, Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (c.1885-86)
- Robert Gober, Half-Buried Sink (1987)