Henry Fuseli: 6 works

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Ixion and Nephele (1809) de Henry FuseliAuckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

'A 'poetic painter', Henry Fuseli focused on the power of dramatic expression and the sublime poetics conveyed in classical texts by Ovid, Homer and Pythian.'

Woman Sitting, Curled up (1778) de Johann Heinrich FüssliSMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

'Füssli's drawing has no specific meaning or content, shows no specific scene.'

Theodore Meets in the Wood the Spectre of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1783) de Johann Heinrich FüssliThe National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

'Füssli frequently quoted from the works of such British authors as Shakespeare, and this work draws its inspiration from Dryden's poem Theodore and Honoria, an adaptation of the "Story of Nastagio degli Onesti" from Boccacio's Decameron.'

Titania and Bottom (Around 1790) de Henry FuseliTate Britain

'Fuseli first read Shakespeare's plays as a student in Zürich.'

Portrait of the Artist's Wife (ca. 1790) de Henry FuseliMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest

'Although he was the one to translate into English Winckelmann's influential Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture, a standard work on the aesthetics of Neoclassicism, his own visionary paintings and drawings make him a representative of the pre-Romantic Sturm und Drang.'

Hephaestus, Bia and Crato Securing Prometheus on Mount Caucasus (c 1800 - c 1810) de Henry FuseliAuckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

'Fuseli has taken the figure of Hephaestus (Vulcan) from the executioner's pose in Andrea del Sarto's Decapitation of St John.'

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