The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman with her arms thrown below her, in deep sleep as she undergoes a nightmare as an almost hidden horse (the "night-mare") looks on as a demonic and ape-like incubus crouches on her chest. [1]

2021年12月15日 · In The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli depicts strong horizontal linearity from the woman’s lying figure across the center of the composition. The woman almost acts like a bridge between the real world and the dream world.

Working during the height of the Enlightenment, the so-called “Age of Reason,” the Swiss-English painter Henry Fuseli (born Johann Heinrich Füssli) instead chose to depict darker, irrational forces in his famous painting The Nightmare.

The Nightmare, oil painting that was created in 1781 and is Swiss-born artist Henry Fuseli’s most famous painting, as well as a landmark in the development of the Romantic movement. It has become an iconic image that is familiar in popular culture and much parodied.

Here Fuseli conjures up a terrifying image filled with mystery and panic, yet with a vague and disturbing familiarity. It suggests the way the woman feels in the grip of a demonic nightmare, not what she sees. The Nightmare was reproduced as an engraving; a copy hung in Sigmund Freud's apartment in Vienna in the 1920s. Title The Nightmare.

2024年5月20日 · Henry Fuseli painted The Nightmare in 1781. It is probably his most notorious artwork. To this day, it remains an iconic gothic depiction for its unconventional subject matter, referencing popular themes in 19th-century psychoanalysis, such as the troubled unconscious mind and the terror of sleepers.

2021年1月12日 · The complex symbolism of Henry Fuseli’s notorious painting, The Nightmare, can be interpreted in these three ways.

The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her, and with a demonic and apelike incubus crouched on her chest. The painting's dreamlike and haunting erotic evocation of infatuation and obsession was a huge popular success.

Owned by Richard Mansergh St. George's best friend, Sir Brooke Boothby, Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare dismayed some critics. It depicted an imagined sensation, not something real or historical.

2018年8月6日 · After Victor runs away from his newly animated Creature, he collapses into a sleep with a nightmare, a horror in which he embraces and kisses his bride-to-be, Elizabeth, who transforms into the corpse of his dead mother.