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5 Iconic Artworks Worth Slowing Down For

Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1834)

When you first look at The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, you might not even notice the executioner. That’s what’s so striking about it.

This isn’t a painting about violence—it’s a painting about the moment just before violence. It’s about innocence, fragility, and the unbearable stillness that comes right before something terrible happens.

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The Stories Behind 10 Legendary Paintings

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918): Death and Life, 1910, reworked in 1915, oil on canvas, Leopold Museum, Vienna

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918): Death and Life,

Gustav Klimt’s large painting ‘Death and Life’, created in 1910, features not a personal death but rather merely an allegorical Grim Reaper who gazes at “life” with a malicious grin.

This “life” is comprised of all generations: every age group is represented, from the baby to the grandmother, in this depiction of the never-ending circle of life.

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