Henry Fuseli's "Nightmare" while not bloody it's surely upsetting seeing symbolism in the artwork. These creatures on this woman's body could mean a multitude of things and is quite disturbing I general. Truley a well thought out piece.

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👁️🖤👁️ My piece vs the painting "The nightmare" by Henry Fuseli.

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Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)

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The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1790-91.

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Reflecting on his art studies in Rome (1770–78), Fuseli said that the Italians “were lively and entertaining, but there was the slight drawback of never feeling one's life safe in their presence.”

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis

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

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Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli, 1794

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El sueño, los sueños, guardián y perturbador del reposo

The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli

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- Art degree coming out! Behind (on the back of the canvas) the famous Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in 1781 is the portrait of a woman on the reverse - obviously a society beauty but with terrifying, demonic hands.

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In medieval folklore an incubus is a demon assuming the form of a man to seduce young women as they slept. Men too were subject to these visitations but by horses in female form called a succubus. Hence nightmares. Sweet dreams! 🎨Henry Fuseli, Philip Burne Jones.

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Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) Swiss painter/draughtsman /writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as The Nightmare, deal w/supernatural subject matter. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake.

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

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis

If you are interested in commissioning an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email at troy.com.

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

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This one is easy — Henry Fuseli’s portrait of “Milton Dictating to His Daughter” (1794).

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Its sometimes a shame to have mysterious demons explained away. So, the night-mare and succubus in "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli (1790) - are now understood to be exmaples of "Sleep paralysis" or "atonia". An estimated 75% of sleep paralysis episodes involve hallucinations.

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The Nightmare (1790) by Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741–1825).

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Johann Fuseli - Silence [900x999]

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