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Henry Fuseli

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Henry Fuseli (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. [1]

68 relations: Academician, Achilles, Analytical Review, Antonio Canova, Benjamin Haydon, Between Scylla and Charybdis, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Drawing, Edwin Landseer, English language, Entomology, Erasmus Darwin, Fortunato Duranti, French language, German language, Germany, Gilding, Gudrun, Gunther, Helvetia, Henry Thomson (painter), Homer, Horse Tamers, Italian language, James Northcote, Johann Caspar Füssli, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Johann Kaspar Füssli, Johann Kaspar Lavater, John Boydell, John Constable, John Knowles (author), John Milton, Joseph Johnson (publisher), Joseph Priestley, Joshua Reynolds, Landscape painting, Macbeth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Michelangelo, Night hag, Odysseus, Old Swiss Confederacy, Oxford University Press, Pandareus, Peter Paul Rubens, Physiognomy, Portrait painting, Publishing, Putney, ..., Reception piece, Rome, Royal Academy of Arts, Smarthistory, St Paul's Cathedral, Tate Publishing Ltd, The Nightmare, Thomas Paine, Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent, Turpentine, United Kingdom, William Blake, William Cowper, William Etty, William Godwin, William Michael Rossetti, William Roscoe, Zürich. Expand index (18 more) »

Academician

An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, or scientific academy.

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Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Ἀχιλλεύς, Achilleus) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

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Analytical Review

The Analytical Review was an English periodical that was published from 1788 to 1798, having been established in London by the publisher Joseph Johnson and the writer Thomas Christie.

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Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.

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Benjamin Haydon

Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 178622 June 1846) was an English painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits.

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Between Scylla and Charybdis

Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, meaning "having to choose between two evils".

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Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, England, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John Boydell in an effort to foster a school of British history painting.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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Edwin Landseer

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals — particularly horses, dogs, and stags.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin (12 December 173118 April 1802) was an English physician.

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Fortunato Duranti

Fortunato Duranti (25 September 1787 – 7 February 1863) was an Italian painter and collector.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gilding

Gilding is any decorative technique for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold.

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Gudrun

Gudrun (Old Norse Guðrún) or Kriemhild (Middle High German Kriemhilt) is the wife of Sigurd/Siegfried and a major figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature.

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Gunther

Gunther (Gundahar, Gundahari, Latin Gundaharius, Gundicharius, or Guntharius, Old English Gūðhere, Old Norse Gunnarr, anglicised as Gunnar, d. 437) was a historical King of Burgundy in the early 5th century.

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Helvetia

Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation.

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Henry Thomson (painter)

Henry Thomson RA (31 July 1773 – 5 April 1843) was an English artist and Royal Academician who became Keeper of the Royal Academy.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Horse Tamers

The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers"—often identified as Castor and Pollux—have stood since antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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James Northcote

James Northcote (Plymouth 22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831 London) was an English painter.

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Johann Caspar Füssli

Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 – 6 May 1782) was a Swiss portrait painter.

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Johann Jakob Bodmer

Johann Jakob Bodmer (19 July 16982 January 1783) was a Swiss author, academic, critic and poet.

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Johann Kaspar Füssli

Johann Kaspar Füssli, also written Johann Caspar Fuesslins or Fuessly (9 March 1743 – 4 May 1786), was a Swiss painter, entomologist and publisher.

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.

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John Boydell

John Boydell (19 January 1720 (New Style) – 12 December 1804) was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings.

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John Constable

John Constable, (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition.

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John Knowles (author)

John Knowles (1781 – 21 July 1841) was the English biographer of Henry Fuseli, and author of works on Naval architecture.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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Joseph Johnson (publisher)

Joseph Johnson (15 November 1738 – 20 December 1809) was an influential 18th-century London bookseller and publisher.

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley FRS (– 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English Separatist theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works.

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Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits.

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Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of landscapes in art – natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view – with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

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Night hag

The night hag or old hag is a creature from the folklore of various peoples which is used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis.

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Odysseus

Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς, Ὀdysseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixēs), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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Old Swiss Confederacy

The Old Swiss Confederacy (Modern German: Alte Eidgenossenschaft; historically Eidgenossenschaft, after the Reformation also République des Suisses, Res publica Helvetiorum "Republic of the Swiss") was a loose confederation of independent small states (cantons, German or) within the Holy Roman Empire.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pandareus

In Greek mythology, Pandareus was the son of Merops and a nymph.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist.

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Physiognomy

Physiognomy (from the Greek φύσις physis meaning "nature" and gnomon meaning "judge" or "interpreter") is the assessment of character or personality from a person's outer appearance, especially the face often linked to racial and sexual stereotyping.

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Portrait painting

Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict a human subject.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Putney

Putney is a district in south-west London, England in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Reception piece

In art, a reception piece is a work submitted by an artist to an Academy for approval as part of the requirements for admission to membership.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London.

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Tate Publishing Ltd

Tate Publishing is a publisher of visual arts books, associated with the Tate Gallery in London, England.

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The Nightmare

The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1. Paine's birth date, therefore, would have been before New Year, 1737. In the new style, his birth date advances by eleven days and his year increases by one to February 9, 1737. The O.S. link gives more detail if needed. – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

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Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent

Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent is a 1790 painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli.

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Turpentine

Chemical structure of pinene, a major component of turpentine Turpentine (also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, wood turpentine and colloquially turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from live trees, mainly pines.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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William Cowper

William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist.

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William Etty

William Etty (10 March 1787 – 13 November 1849) was an English artist best known for his history paintings containing nude figures.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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William Michael Rossetti

William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic.

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William Roscoe

William Roscoe (8 March 1753 – 30 June 1831) was an English historian, leading abolitionist, art collector, M.P. (briefly), lawyer, banker, botanist and miscellaneous writer, perhaps best known today as an early abolitionist and for his poem for children The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fuseli

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