Henry Fuseli RA (/ˈfjuːzəli, fjuːˈzɛli/ FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 – 17 April...
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The Nightmare (redirect from Fuseli's The Nightmare)
The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her, and with a demonic and...
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an ominous tone for the play. Artists in the 18th century, including Henry Fuseli and William Rimmer, depicted them variously, as have many directors since...
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Dido is an oil on canvas painting by the Swiss-British artist Henry Fuseli, created in 1781. This mythological work represents Iris preparing to cut the...
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Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers (category Paintings by Henry Fuseli)
painting by the Swiss-British artist Henry Fuseli, created in 1812. The work is held at the Tate Britain, in London. Fuseli was a great admirer of William Shakespeare;...
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illustrators of Paradise Lost included William Blake, Gustave Doré, and Henry Fuseli. However, the epic's illustrators also include John Martin, Edward Francis...
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Morgoth has been likened to Milton's Paradise Lost, where Death is the ever-hungry child of Satan. Painting of Satan, Sin, and Death by Henry Fuseli, 1800...
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Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent (category Paintings by Henry Fuseli)
the Midgard Serpent is an oil on canvas painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, from 1790. It is held at the Royal Academy of Arts Collections, in London...
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Lawrence, Antoine Watteau, Joshua Reynolds, Augustus Wall Callcott, Henry Fuseli, William Hamilton and 15 drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, many...
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He then sent for Halford, allegedly calling to his servants "Sir Henry! Sir Henry! Fetch him; this is death!" Accounts of George's final moments and...
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preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 and succeeded by Henry V. The play is often seen as an extension of aspects of Henry IV, Part 1, rather than...
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Titania and Bottom (category Paintings by Henry Fuseli)
Titania and Bottom is an oil painting by the Anglo-Swiss painter Henry Fuseli. It dates to around 1790 and is in Tate Britain, in London. It was commissioned...
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Prince Henry's Apology Henry V, Act II, scene 2 by Robert Thew after Henry Fuseli Henry VI, part 1, Act II, scene 3 by Robert Thew after John Opie Henry VI...
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drawing of a flea microscopically observed. Comparisons have been made to Henry Fuseli's monstrous imps, while the image of the flea echos figures in Blake's...
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(1789), a painting by Joshua Reynolds Puck (c. 1810–1820), a painting by Henry Fuseli. Puck (c. 1855–1856), a marble sculpture by Harriet Hosmer The Puck Building...
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Henry IV, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry IV) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written not later than 1597. The play dramatises...
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"Nestor Appearing in a Dream to Agamemnon" (1805) by Henry Fuseli...
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genre of theatrical portraiture in Britain. The Swiss Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, a friend of William Blake, even translated Macbeth into German. The...
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV by Henry Fuseli (1789)...
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Society. Opie painted many of the society's members including Mary Delany, Henry Fuseli, Hannah More, Samuel Johnson, Mary Wollstonecraft and, later on in his...
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power of nature at the climax of the rite. Similarly, a frontispiece by Henry Fuseli, made for Erasmus Darwin's poem The Temple of Nature in 1803, explicitly...
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a social order founded on reason. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft...
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The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins (category Drawings by Henry Fuseli)
Classicism Romanticism Roman sculpture The Anxiety of Influence "Johann Heinrich Fuseli". Kunsthaus Zürich. Retrieved 22 July 2012. Edwards, Catharine (1996). Writing...
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Lives of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and J.M.W. Turner. R. Bentley. pp. 57–58. Geoff...
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century brought a particular admiration for Leonardo's genius, causing Henry Fuseli to write in 1801: "Such was the dawn of modern art, when Leonardo da...
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about the Witch-king's death parallels Shakespeare's, where the witches speak both truth and falsehood about Macbeth's death. Painting by Henry Fuseli...
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Benedick in his farewell performances. The great 19th-century stage team Henry Irving and Ellen Terry counted Benedick and Beatrice as their greatest triumph...
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and scientist Joseph Priestley; philosopher Richard Price; artist John Henry Fuseli; early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and English-American revolutionary...
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Aeneas, an opera by Henry Purcell Dido, Queen of Carthage (opera), an opera by Stephen Storace Dido (Fuseli), a painting by Henry Fuseli "Dido", a song on...
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