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The Nightmare
12017-02-26T12:59:37-08:00Elizabeth Pottera6e9fb7ea6eda3e5063e2aee73ca5f372e99b8f370541by Henry Fuseli, 1781plain2017-02-26T12:59:37-08:00Elizabeth Pottera6e9fb7ea6eda3e5063e2aee73ca5f372e99b8f3
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1media/1200px-Henry_Fuseli_by_James_Northcote.jpg2017-02-26T12:50:17-08:00Henry Fuseli31741-1825image_header2017-04-15T22:08:48-07:00Henry Fuseli, originally named Johann Heinrich Füssli, was an Anglo-Swiss artist noted for his supernatural, erotic, and inventive paintings.
Perhaps his most famous work, The Nightmare, completed in 1781, displays his macabre imagination, featuring an incubus perched on the supine body of a sleeping woman draped over her bed. Fuseli appears to have influenced Blake’s aesthetic in several ways; for example, Fuseli’s elongated figures, juxtaposition of supernatural and natural imagery, intensely muscular bodies, admiration of John Milton’s dynamism, and dramatic scene composition.
