Henry Fuseli, "Paidoleteira" (1821), graphite and black chalk. Hamburg, Private collection of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire (all images courtesy the Courtauld Gallery) For starters, the “Modern Woman” ...

In December 1936, “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition featured everything from Arcimboldo’s mannerist profile “Summer” (1563) to Disney ...

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Henry Fuseli was a Swiss artist known for his dramatic and imaginative depictions of supernatural experiences. "I hate clever women. They are only troublesome," he once remarked. Born in 1741 in ...

The horror of what your brain can do when you give it up to sleep is universal, yet the heyday of the nightmare in art seems to have passed. However, back in the late 18th century nightmare paintings ...

History—and Hollywood film biographies—are full of painters who scrabbled for a living in obscure garrets, and became famous only when dead. But history and Hollywood pass over the many painters ...

Henry Fuseli was “obsessed with sex”, said Mika Ross-Southall in The Daily Telegraph. Wherever he could insert a fetishistic touch into his art, he would: indeed, around a third of the works on show ...

Two elegant portraitists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, ruled the calm and decorous art world of 18th Century London. But there was also an opposition, most notably represented by young, deeply religious ...

Henry Fuseli SHAKSPEARE. Second Part of King Henry the Fourth. Act II. Scene IV. Doll Tearsheet, Falstaff, Henry, & Poins, 1795 Sold Henry Fuseli SHAKSPEARE. Second Part of King Henry the Fourth. Act ...

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