WorkHenry Fuseli

“Lectures on Painting' or 'Life of Michelangelo”

Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) · 1801

InferredMargaret Fuller engaged with the work of Henry Fuseli, a prominent figure in British art criticism. While no specific title is cited, fuller's reading of Fuseli likely encompassed his influential "Lectures on Painting" (1801), a key text on art theory and history, or his writings specifically on artists like Michelangelo.

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“She read Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, Duppa, Fuseli, and Von Waagen — great and small.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with the work of Henry Fuseli, a prominent figure in British art criticism. While no specific title is cited, fuller's reading of Fuseli likely encompassed his influential "Lectures on Painting" (1801), a key text on art theory and history, or his writings specifically on artists like Michelangelo.