Titans Storming Mount Olympus
Henry Fuseli
c. 1770–72
Medium
Pen and black ink and brush and black, gray, and pale brown wash, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on tan laid paper
Dimensions
56 × 70 cm (22 1/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51122
About the Artist
Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zürich, was a Swiss-British painter whose visionary works exploring dreams, nightmares, and psychological terror made him one of the most original figures of the Romantic movement. His art bridged Neoclassical discipline with Romantic emotionalism, creating images of supernatural intensity that would influence artists from William Blake to t...