Füssli and Turner: the “Disapprenticeship”
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- Füssli et Turner : le « désapprentissage »
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1The “Lectures” given between 1801 and 1823 by Johann Heinrich Füssli (perhaps better known to English readers as Henry Fuseli) to the royal Academy, where he had been appointed to a professorship in 1799, had a considerable influence on painters. Flaxman, for example, was one of his students. The twelve lectures in question, which have run to several editions, deal with the classical theoretical traditions. This predominant penchant would undoubtedly have been fuelled by the admiration in which Füssli senior held those champions of classicism, Mengs and Winckelmann. Henry Fuseli’s eight-year sojourn in Rome, and his admiration for the neo-Attic Roman sculpture to be found there, helped to lodge within him the conviction that drawing should come before colour, and that expression was more important than ideal beauty. […]
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Roland Recht, « Füssli and Turner: the “Disapprenticeship” », Critique d’art, 4 | 1994, 43-44.
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Roland Recht, « Füssli and Turner: the “Disapprenticeship” », Critique d’art [En ligne], 4 | Automne 1994, mis en ligne le 25 mai 2023, consulté le 13 octobre 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/104229 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.104229
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