Archive for posts tagged with ‘Fussli’


Nov 12 2010

Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1795, Henry Fuseli

Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1795, Henry Fuseli

This is a reproduction of Henry Fuseli’s “Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis” that was painted between 1794 and 1796.  It depicts a scene from the Odyssey in which Odysseus sailed between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis traditionally associated with the strait between Italy and Sicily.  Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich as Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1741 and arrived in England in 1765 where he began a career as a painter.  He favored the supernatural subjects and eventually taught in the Royal Academy.  He died in 1825 in London.

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Oct 15 2010

Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent by Henry Fuseli, 1795

British / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent by Henry Fuseli, 1795

This Swiss Neo-classical by Johann Heinrich Fuseli depicts a scene of the Norse god Thor fighting the dragon, or serpent, of Middlegard.  This thundering God wielded a war-hammer in his various adventures protecting mankind from Dwarves and Dragons.  Talismans crafted to represent Thor’s hammer were a popular means of showing devotion to the old gods in the face of Christian missionaries.  This work by Fuseli was created in 1795 when the Swiss artist was fifty-four years old.  He died in 1825.

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