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MAMILLIUS CONJURING UP SPRITES AND GOBLINS FOR HIS MOTHER, HERMIONE (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S 'THE WINTER'S TALE)
By Henry Fuseli

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2022-02-27

DISPUTE BETWEEN HOTSPUR, GLENDOWER, MORTIMER AND WORCESTER
By Henry Fuseli

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2022-02-27

Page 53 incorporates Fuseli’s ‘Nightmare’ into Ellery’s memory of Callisto as he’s pinned down by dark, indelible forces.

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2022-02-22

Thor battering the Midgard Serpent, by Henry Fuseli.

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2022-02-21

Henry Fuseli ( 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter-Johann Heinrich Fuseli-

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2022-02-16

Καληνύχτα.Henry Fuseli (7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter.The Night mare
Danae and Perseus on Seriphos-1790

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2022-02-10

Καληνύχτα.Henry Fuseli (7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter.The Night mare
Danae and Perseus on Seriphos-1790

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2022-02-10

The Nightmare, 1791 by Henry Fuseli

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2022-02-08

Artist Henry Fuseli was born in 1741.

Rendered with exaggerated proportions and arranged in an impossibly sinuous pose, this enigmatic back view of an unknown woman exudes an unsettling eroticism.

Fuseli, Back view of a full-length female figure © The Courtauld

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2022-02-07

"Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living."

"Wild Swiss" Henry Fuseli was born 1741 in Zurich

🎨 "The Nightmare" (1791)

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2022-02-07

ok but what if thor norse mythology looked like this?
og painting by henry fuseli

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2022-02-03

The Descent. A brilliant claustrophobic shocker I loved to teach.
It works not only with movie imagery, but with the stuff of myth and dreams too. It evokes hellish visions, from Goya to Fuseli, gothic gargoyles and Dore's engravings.
Roger Ebert.

https://t.co/aqRpp98rOY

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2022-01-26

MARA An old English name for a DEMON that survives in the word NIGHTMARE🎨Iconic Gothic images of Nightmares from Henry Fuseli 1781 to Tartini's Dream by Louis Leopold Boilly 1824 & John-Pierre Simon's Perturbed Woman, 1764

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2022-01-22

"Silence" by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825). Fuseli was a Swiss painter who was inspired by Milton, Shakespeare and by the supernatural. He influenced the art of William Blake. Out of 1000 artworks, he never painted a single landscape. "Damn Nature! she always puts me out" he said.

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2022-01-21

The Shepherd's Dream from Paradise Lost by Henry Fuseli.

In the poem, Milton compares the fallen angels in the Hall of Pandemonium in Hell to the fairies who bewitch a passing peasant with the sound of their music and dancing.

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2022-01-17

The Shepherd's Dream, Henry Fuseli, 1793.
The Knight's Dream, Richard Mauch, 1902.
A Eunuch’s Dream, Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1874.

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2022-01-15