Stuff of dreams; Gothic horror.(Henry Fuseli, James Barry )

The Economist (US) | February 18, 2006 | Copyright

Two exhibitions show how a pair of 18th-century painters, James Barry and Henry Fuseli, inspired the modern visual romance with the gothic

THIS spring the bad boys of British art are making a comeback. Not Damien Hirst and his friends, but the originalenfants terribles--Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) and James Barry (1741-1806)--who aimed, above all, to depict extremes of passion and terror in what they called the new art of the Sublime.

Barry and Fuseli are hardly household names; indeed since Victorian times they have been virtually ignored. But in the late ...

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