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Henry
Fuseli

1741 — 1825 · Early Modern

Early Life, Family and Training Johann Heinrich Füssli was born on 7 February 1741 in Zürich, Switzerland. He grew up in a large household as the second of 18 children. His father, Johann Caspar Füssli, was a man of both brush and pen, working as …

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Henry Fuseli
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Henry Fuseli's own colours

Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers