The Angel of the Odd


“The Nightmare” (Fuseli) – 1781
"It was in the 1930s that the Italian writer and art historian Mario Praz (1896-1982) first highlighted the dark side of Romanticism, thus naming a vast swathe of artistic creation, which from the 1760s onwards exploited the shadows, excesses and irrational elements that lurked behind the apparent triumph of enlightened Reason. This world was created in the English Gothic novels of the late 18th century, a genre of literature that fascinated the public with its penchant for the mysterious and the macabre."
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Musée d'Orsay: The Angel of the Odd. Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst

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