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Date: 1790

Size: 22 x 17 cm

Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)

Technique: Drawing

Born in Zurich and trained to be a preacher, Fuseli (originally Füssli), a man of extreme erudition, was one of the most influential figures of the cosmopolitan art world of the 1800s. The eight years he spent in Rome (1770 – 1778) were decisive in his becoming an artist. In 1780, he settled in London, where he was equally at home in literary and art circles. Although he was the one to translate into English Winckelmann

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