Henry Fuseli, 1778 - Head of a Damned Soul from Dante'sInferno,(verso) - fine art print

This masterpiece with the title Head of a Damned Soul from Dante'sInferno,(verso) was made by the male Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. The 240 year old version of the work of art had the size: edges irregular, appro×, 40,6 × 29,8 cm (16 × 11 3/4 in) and was painted with the techinque of oil on canvas. "Heinrich Fuessly / 1741-1825 (verso, lower left)" was the artpiece's original inscription. The work of art can be viewed in in the Art Institute Chicago's collection. With courtesy of - Art Institute Chicago (license - public domain). : The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Henry Fuseli was a male poet, illustrator, painter, drawer of Swiss nationality, whose style was mainly Romanticism. The European artist lived for a total of 84 years - born in the year 1741 in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and died in 1825.

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Born into a family of artists in Zurich, Henry Fuseli lived in Italy from 1770 to 1778. He probably painted this head, as well as the one executed with equally loose brushwork on the reverse of the canvas, as a study for his own use. Both images were also engraved as illustrations for Johann Caspar Lavater’s influential book on physiognomy (the science of facial structure). According to the text, the heads were inspired by damned souls in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Inferno. Throughout his career, Fuseli favored heroic subjects taken from the work of Dante, John Milton, and William Shakespeare, and he drew formal inspiration from Michelangelo, whom he equated with his literary heroes.