The Museum of Crime

Manuel López invites you to explore a museum unlike any other: a place where beauty coexists with violence and death. The fascinating works brought together in The Museum of Crime reveal how the most horrific aspects of human nature have been immortalised in art for centuries.
In this book, you will learn to examine each painting like a true detective: following clues, hidden symbols and details that often go unnoticed as you delve into some of the crimes, beheadings, suicides, acts of revenge and conspiracies that shaped the course of history.
Because art also preserves the memory of brutality, gives shape to our fears and exposes the dark side of humanity without holding back.
“I have wandered in admiration through this labyrinth of masterpieces, where death and murder await us, and discovered that there is no escaping the truth they hold.” Vicente Garrido, author of La mente criminal “As you turn the pages of this book, you may be surprised to discover just how much of art history has been built upon dead bodies.” From the foreword by El Barroquista.