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Mad Kate (1806/7) by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) …the idea of madness has accumulated around it a mass of prejudices and fears which spring from a desire to keep the social fabric […] intact’. Mad Women in Romantic Writing (1987) by Philip W. Martin

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2019-11-23

Henry Fuseli, "Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis", between 1794 and 1796.

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2019-11-21

Thor Battering The Midgard Serpent by Johann Henry Fuseli 1790 (1741 - 1825)

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2019-11-17

Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent is a 1790 painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It depicts one of the most popular myths in Germanic mythology, Thor's fishing trip with a giant. The nude and muscular Thor stands in Hymir's boat with the Jörmungandr on his fish hook.

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2019-10-31

Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli (1794)

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2019-10-25

Jörmungandr (Midgard Serpent), Norse mythological monster, son of Loki and archenemy of Thor. Painting to the right by Swiss Romantic painter Henry Fuseli (1790).

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2019-10-25

'Three Witches, Banquo and Macbeth' John Henry Fuseli

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2019-09-29

😹 Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare Cat 🙀
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2019-09-14

Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis (1794–1796) by Henry Fuseli
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2019-09-08

The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.
- Cymbeline A4S2

🎨The Nightmare Henry Fuseli

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2019-08-18

Fairy paintings are strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era. Henry Fuseli and William Blake produced works that would be indicative of the later genre even before 1800.

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2019-08-15

Have you seen the fairyland masterpieces of Charles Altamont Doyle (father to the famed author)? The whimsical works reflect the popular 18-century trend of fairy art, started in Britain by artists like and https://t.co/naC7pADLWf

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2019-08-15

It's believed that Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' was first performed in 1606 for James I. https://t.co/4HL2FHDTLY

'Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches (from William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Act I, Scene iii)' by Henry Fuseli (1741–1825),

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2019-08-07

FUSELI'S PUCK (c.1790) has bat wings rather than butterfly wings; his enchantments are far from innocent. The other fairies flee in this image where he is full of movement. He boasts he can 'put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes' (MSND)

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2019-07-23

An Alp is a supernatural being in German folklore. It is sometimes likened to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. The word Alp is the German form of the word that comes into English as 'elf'.
'The Nightmare', by Henry Fuseli, between 1790-1791

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2019-07-19

Awesome entry to this week’s Masters of the Universe Drawing Challenge for the character Mosquitor, by Nico Martelle , which references the famous painting The Nightmare (1781 oil painting by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli).

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2019-06-05

This lil’ fella tho. Stealing the show in Henry Fuseli’s “Titania Awakes Surrounded by Attendant Fairies” I wanna be in his gang. 👏🏻
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2019-05-10

THE MIDGARD SERPENT or Jörmungandr. Offspring of the giantess Angrboða & Loki, so huge that its coils stretch right around the world. When Thor baits it with an ox head Jörmungandr vomits poison & blood before sinking back into the sea
Images Fuseli to Marvel

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2019-04-26