Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare
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The Great Nightmare
Fisley started out as a man with literary ambitions, rather than painflly ambitions. He travelled to london initially hoping to become a great writer. But when he met joshua reynolds and was told 'probably to get rid of fisley', he changed his ambitions from being a author to becoming a painter. In 17 81, two, he does that with his first version of the nightmare. And it's a picture the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. Some people think he's a genius. Some people thinks he's depraved. But he's talked about. That's the key thing. I think. Actually, can you describe the painting?
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