Painting of the Week: The Nightmare

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This week we study a piece from the Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli that typifies the symbolism and complexity of artistic Romanticism

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4azULu4pPA

Detroit Institute of Arts
Era of Revolution S331, Level 3

"The Nightmare"

by Henry Fuseli

Fiends, Frankenstein, and Fuseli Fuseli, The Nightmare, c 1780