Word: fuselier
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On the top floor, roofed only by filtered skylights, is the center's permanent exhibit, featuring the gems of MelIon's collection. It begins with two commanding portraits: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Anthony Van Dyke's Mountjoy Blount, Earl...
SWISS PAINTING by Florens Deuchler, Marcel Roethlisberger and Hans Lüthy. 198 pages. Skira/Rizzoli. $45. One calumny on Switzerland runs that 500 years of democracy produced the cuckoo clock. Naturally, the three Swiss academicians who produced this book dispute the insult. They also show some indecision about whether there...
But in general it was Shakespeare, not Milton, who gave Fuseli his big themes of blood, darkness, prophecy and witchcraft, those unfailing ingredients of the romantic sublime. Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream were his favorite sources, though he also illustrated Lear. Hamlet and some of the histories...
Three Witches, now seem overwrought, to the edge of absurdity, one should remember how much closer Fuseli's whole sense of posture, gesture and staging was to the conventions of 18th century theater than to those of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Fuseli's relaxation from blood was lust. The most eminent of his lovers was the pioneer of English feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft-at the very period in the 1790s when she was writing her Vindication of the Rights of Women. He seems to have viewed the woman he married, Sophia...