Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower
Henry Fuseli
1806
Medium
Pen and black ink and brush and black, gray, and red wash, over traces of graphite, on grayish-ivory laid paper
Dimensions
63.9 × 52.2 cm (25 3/16 × 20 9/16 in.)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
7566
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...