Fuseli
Americannoun
noun
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The resulting landscapes featured such realistic weather that one critic, the Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, said that Constable’s work “makes me call for my great-coat and umbrella.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
Fuseli did not mean this as a compliment.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Nightmare, by John Henry Fuseli, 1781: a perfect distillation of the sleep-paralysis experience.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015
Eclectic is a polite description: all the visual world was here, from Les très riches heures to Memling, Gustave Doré, Fuseli and, for Isabelle's plasticated boudoir, Polly Pocket.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2012
Thus poor fumigatory Fuseli, with an art composed of the tinsel of the stage and the panics of the nursery, speaks contemptuously of the name of Angelico as "dearer to sanctity than to art."
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John
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