Artworks That Overwhelm the Viewer

Paintings that create a powerful sense of awe, grandeur, or overwhelming emotion. Art that makes you feel small.

A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
Portrait of a Man by Francesco de' Rossi (Francesco Salviati), Cecchino
A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
Figures in Movement by Francis Bacon
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Edouard Riou
Figures in Movement by Francis Bacon
A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
A Cornish Bay by David James
Happy Union by Paolo Veronese
Untitled by Manuel Felguérez
Mrs Littleton by Thomas Lawrence
A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
Prince Hoare by Thomas Lawrence
Jane de Glehn in a Gondola by John Singer Sargent
Blown on the Wind by David James
Officier Des Dragons De La Garde Impériale En Grande Tenue by Carle Vernet
David with the Head of Goliath by Guido Reni
A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
The King could not contain himself for joy by Arthur Rackham
Mrs John Trower by Thomas Lawrence
Panel 5. In the Presence of the Gods Jupiter Bestows Immortality on Psyche and Celebrates Her Marriage to Eros by Maurice Denis
The ride of the Valkyries by Arthur Rackham
Untitled by Manuel Felguérez
Mrs Cecilia Lock by Thomas Lawrence
Apollo, Hyacinthus and Cyparis singing and playing by Alexander Ivanov
Philadelphia Hannah, 1st Viscountess Cremorne by Thomas Lawrence
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of Lenin by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
John Smith (1703–1787) by George Romney
Hercules as Heroic Virtue Overcoming Discord by Peter Paul Rubens
Lyon by Oskar Kokoschka
Equestrian monument by Leonardo da Vinci
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
Untitled by Manuel Felguérez
Audrey and Chickapick by Clara Southern
Panel 4. The Vengeance of Venus by Maurice Denis
A Little Boy Lost by Dorothy Lathrop
Cosimo I by Francesco de' Rossi (Francesco Salviati), Cecchino
Mrs Alice Wood by Thomas Lawrence
Princess Lieven by Thomas Lawrence
An Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon with a Battle Beyond by Carle Vernet
Bradda Head by David James
Mona Lisa by Fernando Botero
Philip Sansom by Thomas Lawrence
Father! Father! by Arthur Rackham
Untitled Blue Monochrome by Yves Klein
Magnolias by John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman by Frans Hals
Portrait of a Bishop by Thomas Lawrence