In this video, museum guide Jessica tours the National Gallery in London to explore ten of its strangest, most unusual, and macabre artworks in chronological order. The journey spans from the 15th through the 20th century, starting with Fra Filippo Lippi\u2019s Seven Saints<\/i>, which curiously features St. Peter the Martyr chatting with a giant knife wedged in his skull. It continues with a 15th-century German portrait of a woman featuring a photorealistic fly on her headpiece, Giovanni di Paolo\u2019s depiction of Saints Fabian and Sebastian alongside flagellating members of a plague-era religious order, and Piero di Cosimo\u2019s enigmatic mythological scene featuring fingerprints in the paint. Moving into the 16th and 17th centuries, the tour highlights Quentin Massys\u2019s The Ugly Duchess<\/i> (which inspired John Tenniel\u2019s Alice in Wonderland<\/i> illustration), Lucas Cranach the Elder\u2019s moralizing Cupid Complaining to Venus<\/i>, Bronzino\u2019s bizarre and erotic An Allegory with Venus and Cupid<\/i> (which inspired the Monty Python foot animation), Domenichino\u2019s Apollo Killing the Cyclops<\/i> featuring a real-life jester dwarf chained in the corner, and Salvator Rosa\u2019s dark, HP Lovecraft\u2013inspiring Witches at their Incantations<\/i>. Finally, the tour concludes at the museum entrance with Boris Anrep\u2019s 20th-century mosaic floor, which depicts famous real-life figures\u2014such as Virginia Woolf, Greta Garbo, and Winston Churchill\u2014as modern muses and virtues.<\/p>\n