Day: March 16, 2006

A Swiss-born artist who lived and worked in Berlin, Rome and London, Fuseli is generally thought of as English. While in Rome he became fascinated with the work of Michelangelo and changed his name from Johann Heinrich Füssli to the Italian sounding “Fuseli”. Like the Pre-Raphaelites (see my post on William Holman-Hunt), who he pre-dated…