The wash drawings and oil paintings of subjects from Greek tragedy by Anglo-Swiss painter
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), routinely categorized as romantic classicism, might be better …

The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century challenged
European assumptions about ancient life; just as influential, if quieter, was the revolution …

The Swiss born painter Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) has long been regarded as one of the
great initiators of the Romantic movement. He first won acclaim in 1781 when he exhibited …

First published in 1966, Classicism and Romanticism is a collection of important articles
originally published in the author's famous book, Florentine Painting and its Social …

The Alsatian Johann Fischart (1546/47-1590) is recog nized as one of the most important
and prolific German writers of the second half of the sixteenth century. He is known, first of …

In the drawing Three Courtesans Operating on the Face of a Bound Man (1800)(plate 1), a
naked man is confined to a chair, bound tightly across his chest and pelvis. He is flanked by …

Flandrin-the most important religious artist in France during his lifetime-began a mural in
1848 whose iconography is without precedent in Christian art, represents a unique …

Visual Studies and Anthropology: Debates about Methods The anthropological question is
on the agenda of art history. Early in the 1990s visual studies (or visual theory and culture) …

Aufklärung (The Dialectic of Enlightenment), first published in North America in the dark
days of 1944. They saw the world as increasingly irrational, and sought to activate every …