Swiss-born English painter Henry Fuseli leads the first wave, which includes Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and Goya a generation inspired by Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante's "Inferno, " Milton's "Paradise Lost" and English Gothic novels.
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