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ART AND HISTORY
The Romanticism or the Romantic movement has risen the belief that artistic
manifestation contributes to the ethical evolution of society. Almost after two centuries of
supremacy of the scientific consideration of reality. Finally the art has started to be proclaimed as
subsequent sources regarding spiritual insight, which was necessary for society’s welfare. The
romantic artists are now seen as the creator of amalgamating symbols in a fragmented
edification. “Beauty alone can confer upon him a social character. Taste alone brings harmony
into society, because it fosters harmony in the individual” (Schiller, 1795/1967, p. 215). In the
field of art history, originality became the centrally valuable notion, which gave rise to the
concept of romanticism (Sigaki, Perc and Ribeiro, 2018). This movement has brought an end to
the eighteenth century movement of neoclassicism (Furst, 2017). Artists were started to be
considered as the persons whose power of imagination was an aptitude of instantaneous insight,
which superior to science, thus art was a traditionally relevant arrangement of knowledge
(Hemingway, 2017).
Born in Swiss, the painter named Henry Fuseli from the year 1741 to until the year 1825,
has been considered as one of the inordinate originators of the Romantic Movement (Gill, 2016).
In London, at the Royal Academy he won his very first acclaim in the year 1781, when he
exhibited his famous work of Nightmare. Most of Henry’s works were based on literal
elucidations of literary passages selected for their deep psychological level, intense horror,
extreme mystery and intrigue. Similarly, the painting “Nightmare” comprises of chiaroscuro
lighting, overt sexuality and dramatic intensity was atypical of Henry’s oeuvre, however, it was
centred on imagination and folklore rather than any particular literary source. As per the
reference of his friend John Knowles, Fuseli’s favourite ‘foreign poet’ is Dante and throughout
his life, he sought inspiration from the divine comedies of Dante, especially the Inferno.

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