Henry Fuseli
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Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain.
Portrait of Henry Fuseli by James Northcote, 1778
Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent was Fuseli's diploma work for the Royal Academy, accepted 1790.
Head of Christ — etching and engraving by John Corner after a drawing by Henry Fuseli (1791), based on a work by Andrea del Verrocchio
The Nightmare (1781), Detroit Institute of Arts
Between Scylla and Charybdis
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Being "between Scylla and Charybdis" is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". Several other idioms such as "
Henry Fuseli
…Eve from Milton's Paradise Lost, 1793 Macbeth consulting the Vision of the Armed Head, 1793 The daughters of Pandareus, c. 1795 Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1794–1796 The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches, 1796 Horseman attacked by a giant snake, c. 1800 Ariel, c. 1800–1810 Kriemhild and Gunther, 1807…
Henry Fuseli's painting of Odysseus facing the choice between Scylla and Charybdis, 1794–1796
Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis (James Gillray, 1793)