Belisane and Parcifal under the Enchantment of Urma
Engraver John Raphael Smith British
After Henry Fuseli Swiss
Not on view
To symbolize the body's enslavement to physical desire, Fuseli invented an image that combines elements from the German medieval romance Parzival and Edmund Spenser's Fairie Queen. Small demonic forms rise from a smoking brazier to surround the magician Urma who holds a heavy chain binding the sleeping Belisane and her knightly lover. Smith's mezzotint reproduces a painting Fuseli exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1783.
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