1815: Death of Thomas Burke. Engraver & painter. Most of his work done using the mezzotint technique. Preferred to work for publishers. Best known work was a popular engraved print of Fuseli's, The Nightmare (right). https://t.co/Kamokq50WH
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One of four variations of The Nightmare by John Henry Fuseli,1790-1791

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Will had sweaty nights for quite a reason.

(using "The Nightmare", by Henry Fuseli, 1781)

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🦇 My piece from the based on a painting by Henry Fuseli 🦇

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Hamlet and his father's Ghost (1780 - 1785)

Henry Fuseli

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We're going to kick off today's with the ethereal beauty of The Shepherd's Dream from 'Paradise Lost' by Henry Fuseli. We especially love the use of colour to create light in the dark.

This one's from .

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Made my own version of Fuseli's ''The Nightmare'', probably one of the most atmospheric paintings in art history, like a perfectly executed scare in a horror movie.

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The Return of Milton's Wife - Henry Fuseli, 1798 - 1799

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Hamlet and his father's Ghost (1780 - 1785)

Henry Fuseli

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Henry Fuseli’s paintings reinforce gender stereotypes with men being heroic and women overly seductive. But even he, with his conservative views, somehow got entangled in an affair with feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

🎨Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent (1790)
by Henry Fuseli

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One of the most famous, and unnerving, examples of the occult.

Henri Fuseli's 'The Nightmare.'

The succubus was supposed to visit women at night to seduce them, whilst the succubus visited men.

Both could be summoned up at Halloween.

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Weird sisters; ministers of darkness; minions of the moon https://t.co/BWUUgBbpi4 James Gillray, 1791; "A burlesque of Fuseli's well-known picture illustrating 'Macbeth', i. 3. The three witches are Dundas, Pitt, and Thurlow, in profile to the right instead of to the left.

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Good choice! That's not our only picture depicting Macbeth and the Witches either, here is another by Henry Fuseli 🎃👻

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4. Let's delve into art history in anticipation of Halloween: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1790-91), Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis

Video about the painting: https://t.co/otPFACctke

Powerful Symbolist image from the Swiss master Fuseli taken from the Oddyssey: https://t.co/G2ll6pr68i

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Polynices asks his father's support in overthrowing his brother. Enraged, Oedipus delivers a curse…each son would die at the hands of the other; “Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices” (1786) by Swiss-born painter Henry Fuseli

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis

Video about the painting: https://t.co/otPFACctke

Powerful Symbolist image from the Swiss master Fuseli taken from the Oddyssey: https://t.co/G2ll6pr68i

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