The Nightmare
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title:
The Nightmare
text:
The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her, and with a demonic and ape-like incubus crouched on her chest. The painting's dreamlike and haunting erotic evocation of infatuation and obsession was a huge popular success. After its first exhibition, at the 1782 Royal Academy of London, critics and patrons reacted with horrified fascination and the work became widely popular, to the extent that it was parodied in p
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wiki
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description:
1781 painting by Henry Fuseli
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare
date created:
2005-11-13T09:57:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:37:59Z
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