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Article: A pictorial counterpart to "Gothick" literature: Fuseli's The Nightmare.
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Painted in 1781, then often reproduced, Fuseli's The Nightmare became widely influential. Its real context is the "Demonism" current in contemporary "Gothick" literature, and the key to this is Fuseli's haunting "incubus," first described in the Malleus Maleficarum.
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It has been argued in various monographs (see: Antal; Schiff, 1741-1825; Schiff et al.; Schiff and Viotto; and Tomory) that, among the many artists working in eighteenth-century Britain, perhaps it was Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) who was the most inventive and most formidably endowed intellectually. Clearly, his works, known practically everywhere through engravings, did leave their ...
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