Creator of Nightmares
Christopher Baker
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunstgeschichte
Beschreibung
A critical biography of the eighteenth-century painter. Henry Fuseli (1741 1825) was one of the eighteenth century s most provocative and inventive artists. He is best known for his painting The Nightmare, which channeled a new form of gothic imagery for the Romantic age. This engaging study of the artist s career unveils Fuseli s complexities, navigating contradictions between literary and painted works, sacred and secular themes, and traditional patronage versus competitive exhibitions. Plotting Fuseli s trajectory from Zurich to Paris, Rome, and ultimately London, Creator of Nightmares paints an image of Fuseli as an astute marketer and self-proclaimed genius who transformed himself from a priest to an Enlightenment writer, a mercurial force in the art world, and finally a revered teacher.
